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VOL. I.
5*21131 S@-OTSIISIBSJ IPSSS
Is published in the city of Macon every Saturday, at
■jwo dollars in advance, three dollars at the end of
the year— one dollar and fifty cents for six months.
No subscription received for a less period—and no pa
per discontinued, until all arrears are paid, unless at the
■option of the Publisher.
Aioeriiscrnents will be inserted' at the usual rates of
advertising, with a reasonable deduction to yearly ad
vertisers. BCT Our Advertising friends are requested
to mark the number of insertions, on their advertise
ments —otherwise they will be published till forbid, and
charged accordingly.
Religious, Marriage and Obituary Notices inserted free
of charge.
frjr Letters, on business, either to the Publisher or
Editor, must come post paid to insure attention.
r VHCt UfO ACADE MY.
Mr. bauge will continue to take Scholars unt;
the s"h of February—no scholars will be take
after that tunc.
January 27 h?f
CENTRAL HOTEL,
MACON, GEORGIA.
MTIIE subscribe! respectfully informs his friend
and the public in general, that lie has taken th<
above named Establishment, which having bee;
rece itiy thoroughly repaired and enlarged at great e*
pence—is now open tor the reception of Traveller•
Boarder*, <Sfc. The chambers are large and airy—ih.
servants competent and attentive. His 'Fable slia
constantly be supplied with every delicacy the Seaso'
and Market will furnish. His Bar is stocked with tin
choicest Wines and Liquors. Aid in order morecdoe
tua'ly to make it a fhs rate House, he has called to In
aat he servioes of Mr. A. Elder, of Baltimore, wlios,.
long experience ut Barn urn’s Guy Hotel, has justly en
titled him to the reputation of a Caterer for the public.—
The subscriber, therefore, hones by his unremitting ex
ertions to please, to receive a liberal share of patronage.
HORACE It. WARD:
N. B. Good Stabling attached to the Hotel, with faith
ful and attentive Ostlers.
December 16 R‘s
For Sale.
. .. THS small ;l *use on cotton Avenue, at pres
r if ent occupied by C. G. St. John as a>weiry store.
JlriA ieltnU WoiTi.in. Ap
ply to ' JAMES A. NISBET.
December 2. 6
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
M&pySk. WILL be sold on Monday, the U.h of
February, twenty-seven live acre l,n s, si -
uated one mile from the city of JVI icon.—
This property is located in one of the inos f
healthy situation in the S ate. With 35 in
family, m tie vear 1333, there was not a single case o{
fever'; with 22 in family in 1337, living on one of then
Lots, it was the same ca«e. Same ol these Lots contai
upwards of 25J timber trees, which are worth from 82
to 82 50 each, which fact wil* be attested hv application
to Mr. A. McGregor, Thomas Ivniglr, or any other car
penter of this city, who is in the practice of using hea
vy timber. It also has the advantage of being the near
est timber land to city. As these lots will in all proba
bility be sold very ciieap, and are sufficiently near the
ci'y for any business man to occupy, it is hoped this op
portunity will not he overlooked. Also, on the same
day, one ten acre Lot, which is one ot the. most beauii-j
iiil situations for a summer residence in the county. It
con" ‘.ins two tine Springs; a Fish popd averaging from
Bto 10 feet deep, well stocked with fish. The Springe
are considered inferior to none in the county. Term
of sale, one-third cash, and the balance in six and
twelve months. Any debt I owe, ". ill be thankfully re
ceived in payment. DAVID F. WILSON,
January 27 1 Ip
Ware-House and Commission Business.
THE subscriber leave to inform;
/ a. 1® his friends t!ie public generally, that he i
L a* lias taken the well known stand for
£>,¥•#» nieriy occupied by Lippitt &. Higgins,
as a Ware-House. The house is large,
and as safe from Fire as tiny Ware-House in the city,
and for close storage it excels any house in the city, al
so for safety and convenience. A share ot public pat
ronage i3 respectfully solicited.
C, L. HOWLAND.
N. B. The AUCTION business will he kept up at
the above stand, which is one of the best houses in the j
city for the above business. Strict attention will be |
paid to the sale of any goods that the public may see
proper to confer upon him. Verv respectfully,
C. L. HOWLAND.
Consignments respectfully solicited.
December 1 6
Carpenter’s Embrocation for Horses.
I NOR the cure of Swellings, Strains, Bruises, Galls
Stiffness of Tendour and Joints, Ac. Ac.
This Embrocation is recommended to Farriers and
others who wish a remedy for diseases above mention
ed For sale hv J. H- &W. S. ELLIS
Sep f ember 23 4tf
Central Rail Road and Banking Company \
of Georgia. >
StivannaK January 2d, 1838. )
“IVTOTICEis hereby given that an instalment of SlO
-INI per share on the capital stock of this institution, is
required to he paid on or before the 2d Saturday in March
next —one half to be applied to banking, and one half
to roads.
Stockholders at and in the neighborhood of Macon
can make payment at the Branch in that city.
, ' R. R. CUYLER, Cashier.
-January 13. 12a
MACON, (Ga.) SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1838.
[Communicated.]
GREEK WINE.
Pure Juice of the Grape !
13ER Greek brig Alexandras, by ISAAC NEW
-*- HALL, next door to the Post-Office.
We observe that a Boston merchant gives the follow
ing description of the above Wine :
■“ This Wine is the true produce of the Grecian soil,
and partakes of that Hewed mildness w hich is so pecu
iiar to the skies of Greece. It has inspiration, hut no
madness. It can impart gladness w ithout intoxication:
.t is the very Wine which gladdened the hearts of the
Greek poets, and enabled the father of gods and of mor
als to feel and enjoy his immortality: but,unfortunate
ly, the Wines, like the Gods of Greece are, at the pre
sent time, somewhat out oi fashion, and consequently
seldom mentioned. The reason of this is not because
he Wines of Greece have altered, but because the de
votees of Bacchus, the wine drinkers, have degenerated
nost amazingly. Alas ! they have Jost their taste for
he simple tis well as the natural, and like critics, wh<
•ondernn w orks of genius by looking at the title page,
hey pass their condemnation upon the Wines ot Greece,
>Y taking them once. No ! tne Wines of Greece, like
be immortal works of her writers, must he tned loin
id well, and then, and only then, their good qualitn
an he known and their lieautiesappreciated.
P-S. Tms Wine has been expressly put up by out
' r the best wine merchants ol Greece, lor the temper
; ice community of th.s country, a.:d imported in tli.
• reek brig Alexandras, which vessel well make a vo
ge every year, and families, as well as churches, nur
iepend upon their yearly supply.
January 20 ...
COMM ERCI VJj BANK. )
Macon, January 27, 1333. [
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
■ft N election will he held at the Banking House in fh>
-- city, on the first Monday in February next, at 1<
’does, A. -M. f >r five Directors of tins Bank, to serve
: >r twelve months thereafter.
G. B. CAR HART, Cosh er.
January 27 lie
NOTICE.
\ LL persons having aeeou its against the fii-i -a
- \ Coox At CowtEi, and J. Cowles, are roquos led it.
u esent them at the Counting Room of the std -s *ril*ei-.
January 27 I4t.f J COWLES.
CITY LICENSES'.
JJERSONS wishing any description of Licenses, can
A obtain the same by application to tne, at the Pest-
Mice. JESSE L. OWEN, Cieni Council.
January 27 . 14
Not ie«»—Copart uevship.
3HJE subscriber having associated with him, Allen
5- L. Live, they will transact business under the
name, style and firm of Wai. B. Johnston &. Cos.
i WM. B. JOHNS'PON.
Macon. January l, 1333. 13tf
NOTICE.
LL persons indebted to the subscriber, either by note
' or open account, are verv respectfnilv invited to
ill and settle the same. WM. B. JOHNSTON.
January 20 UUf
\ Card.
' IIE -subscriber oilers a continuation of his services
■*L to the citizens of Macon as Collector, and tenders
ids thanks for past favors, and respectfullv solicits a con
ciliation of the same. CHARLES W. HARE.
December 16 8b
Georgia Insurance and Trust Company.
A PITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS ALL PAID IN.
gllilS company continues to insure dwelling houses,
-ft. stores merchandise, cotton in ware-houses, and
urnituTP, against loss by fire—and takes inland and ma
rine risks on terms as favorable as other responsible in
stitutions. Claims for losses are settled with promptness
and liberality. Apply t» C. DAY, Agent.
December 0 6m7
PROSPECTUS OF TIIE
SOUTHERN ARGUS,
To hr published at I Varrcnton, 1 Carre n County, Georgia.
rBNUE increasing importance of the town of War
s. renton since the termination of the Georgia Rail
Road at that place, connected with other circumstances
calculate and to improve it, call loudly upon its citizens, &
those of the neighboring country, for the establishment
of a Free Press among them, t.» be devoted to their in
terests in Commerce, Liierature, Agriculture and Good
Morals. For the purpose of carrying into effect ao lau
dable an enterprize, a company of gentlemen have al
ready formed themselves into a “Joint Stock Associa
tion,’’ and have elected their Editor, and made all the
necessary arrangements for the immediate publication
of a paper.
As regards the peculiar principles upon which this
paper shall he established, all of its patrons are assured
that no productions, but such as are calculated to im
prove the morals, instruct the mind, and refine the feel
ings, will at any time be permitted to emenate from it.
’Tis true many incidents in romance or real life, which
hv pleasing our fancies, may tend to while away the te
dious hours of our lorft summer days, or sleepless
watches of our winter nights, will be inserted, when
thev have no special tendency to dissipate the mind, and
unfit it for the study of more important lessons.
It is also understood that in relation to the political
creeds of the day, our paper will remain perfectly neu
tral, only so far as they effect the peculiar institutions
of the South, concerning which there never has been
raised one dissenting voice on this side of the Potomac.
It shall ever be considered our duty to watch with Ar
gus eye such interferences, and from the commence
ment, we take a uniform and decided stand against
I them.
IQrThe ARGUF will be printed on a medium sheet,
every Friday, at Thee Dolhrs per annum, payable in
1 advance ; and will probably appear sometime in the
month of March. £5“ Advertisements printed at the
' useual rates. .
*** All papers friendly to the enterprize will please
dive this a few insertions.
Dir letters on business to be directed, post paid, to
E M. Pendleton, Editor.
Warreatonj January J#
coacii
WARE- UOUSE.
RIGLEY A, HA RT, (oppoeite corner to Wash
* * iugton Hall,) have on hand a large assortment
f Saddlery, Harness, Hardware, Carriage-Furni
ture, *Siic.
—ALSO
Carriages, Barouches, Buggy s, Gigs, Tilhunjs, Sul
' cy.v, and i-'uucy Wagons. 9CT Vehicles of aIL kinde,of
h<‘ best materials, manufactured to order.
Macon, December 9 7
NEiy~CAURIAtiE REPOSITORY,
ON SECON D .STREET.
JJIIE pifcscriberhiis on hand, and will be receiving,
* a ii||»e assortment of Carviages,
ki&e. Those wishing to purchase wilt
o well | call and examine for thrnisc Ives.
JOHN HUNT, hi.
PrccTvfiJpr 2 6
¥ NOTICE. ~~
rHE |*vtrership that has been under the name of
Horatk Fitch in
New’-llavcn, Conn, will IkrUissolved by its own
‘ion on the firsttlf January. Asa new arrange)
• ih he made in the business, nil persons inueba-d io1)9
•vi!l pie asst Cial.c an early sc.dement. 2
LEWIS FITCH, M
_ HORACE FITCH tt
Deceniltrr So 10
Elyi-iN Patont’ liowic-Rnl/e Pistols.
»y ELGIN’S Patent Bowie-Knife Pistols, just recci
vtd and for sale by
ROBINSON, WRIGHT & CO.
December 1 6
F. F. LEIfW,
fashionable merchant tailor,
ON COTTON-AVENUE,
‘RRTTIERF gentlemen can lie accommodated wgh
% % to order, on the shortest nonef* Hftd
of the best material r-i Englis h and French Goods —and
of the most recent sple. Also, a fine assortment of the
best Ready-Made Clothing of every description, com
mon in Ids business. Citizens and transient persons,
by giving him a call, w ill find a choice selection of Fan
cy Articles.
Also, UNIFORMS made to order in the best and la
test style, aud good materials.
Good workmen are employed, and all orders will be
strictly and punctually attended to.
Wanted.—Two Journeymen Tailors, to w hom lib
eral w'agesand steady employ will be given.
December 2 ' 7
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Treasures of the Ocean.
The immense amount of treasure, and oth
er memorials of mail, which lie buried in the
ocean, is a curious subject of reflection. Who
can say, that to future ages the memory of the
nations now in the world, may not be preserv
ed solely by these relics ? Hut few persons
have any idea of the number of vessels, w ith
valuable cargoes, which have been submerged.
Lyell, in his “ Principles of Geology,” says
that during the late war between England and
France, thirty-two English ships-of-the-liuc
went to the bottom in twenty-two years, lie
sides seventy fifty-gun-ships, cightv-six frig
ates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The
navies of the other European powers, France,
Holland, Spain and Denmark, were almost an
nihilated during the same period, so that the
aggregate of their losses must have exceeded
that of Great Britain. In every one of these
ships, were batteries of cannon, constructed
of every species of iron or brass, whereof a
great number had the dates and places of their
manufactories inscribed upon them in letters
cut in metal. In each their were coins of cop
per, silver, and often many of gold, canab'eof
serving as historical monuments: in each
were an infinite variety of instruments of the
arts of war and peace; many formed of ma
terials such as glass and carthenw r are. capable
of lasting for infinite ages, when once remov
ed from the mechanical action of the waves,
and buried under a mass of matter which may
exclude the corroding action of sea water.—
Upon this subject, Lyell, in his “ Principles of
Geology,” remarks:
“ But let it not be imagined that the fury of
war is more conducive than the peaceful spirit
of commercial enterprise to the accumulation
G. R, HJUIUOTRa, MMS9VZR A PI33M3MX3.
of wrtx*ketl vessels in il»e bed oi Lie i>eu.—
tFroni the examination of Lloyd’s list horn me
\N;ar 1783 to tlie commcncecnent of iCidU,
Captain W. 11. Smyth ascertained that tl:e
; number of British vessels alone, lost during
that jieriod, amounted on an average, to no
less than one & u half daily ; an extent of loss
which would have hardly been anticipated, al
though we learu fiom Moreau’s tables, tnat the
number of merchant >essells employed at one
time in the navigation of England and Scot
land, amounted to about twenty thousand, hav.
ing, one with another, a mean burthen of 120
lons—My friend, Mr. J. L. Provost, also in
forms me. that on inspecting Lloyd’s List lor
the years 1820, 1830, and 1831, lie finds no
less than 1953 vessels were lost in those time
years, their average tonnage being about 150
tons, or, in all, nearly 300,000 tons, being at
me enormous rate of 100,000 tons nununiiy,
of the merchant vessels of one nation only.-
This increased loss, arises, I presume, fioni in
creased activity in commerce.
Out of 550 ships of the royal navy, lost to
the country during the [teriod above mention
ed, only 100 were taken or destroyed by thq
enemy, the rest having either .stranded or loun.
lered, or having been burnt by accident; a
striking j>iooi* that tire dangers of our uuvul
warfare, however great, may be fir exceeded
by the storm, the shoal, the lea shore, and all
t :e other perils of the dt ep.
“ Millions of silver dollars and other coins,
nave been some times in a sing!©
■ftp, and the re when they Imp period to be on.
. Mfcal iii a mat ti\ capable of |>rofeCtfng (horn
'Bl < tu.oal O i.aijS ci, mueh i, -format ioi of
QPHjcal interest Will remain inscribed, and en-
Eure for periods os'indefinite as have the delis
[watemarkings of zoophytes or lapiuiiied plants
lin some of tie ancient secondary rooks. In
almost every large ship, moreover, thei'o are
some precious stone set in seals, and other ar
ticles of use and ornament, composed of iha
hardest substances in nature, og which, leifers
and various images me
which they may retain when included in sub.
aqueous strata, as long as crystal preserves its
natural form.
“ It was, therefore, a splendid boast, (hat the
deeds of the English chivalry at Angincourt
made Henry’s chronicle
“ As rich with praise
A' ; is the ooze and bottom of the deep,
With sunken wrecks and sunless treasures.
For it is probable that a greater number of
monuments of the skill and industry of man
will, in tiie course of ages, be collected togeth
er in the bed of the ocean, than will lie seen at
any other time, on the surface of the conti
nent.”
FAT VS. AMBITION.
It would appear that it is requisite for the
body to lie active and springing as the mind ;
and if it is not, it weighs the latter down to its
own gravity. Who ever heard of a fat man be
ing ambitious ? Caesar was a spare man ; Bona
parte was thin, as long as he climbed the lad
der; Nelson was a shadow; the duke of Wel
lington has not sufficient fat in his composition
to grease his own Wellington boots. In short,
I think my hypothesis to be fairly borne out,
that fat and ambition are incompatible. Am
bit ion seems to depend ujion the irritation of
bile acting upon delicate mucous tissues.—*
Now this is utterly impossible in a fat man, for
the blood is so much taken up in forming adi
pous matter that it cannot aflbrd to do much
for the biliary secretion.
Give a man half a dozen stones of good suet
as a kind of cushion for his bones, and he will
jog along this life’s turnpike w ithout troubling
others, or himself either, much.
VERY PROPER.
A clergyman, who had been elected to the
Legislature of Maine, returned his credentials
to the House and resigned his seat, on the
grounds, Ist, that he w r as a minister of the gos
pel, and in that capacity had duties to attend
to, which he considered of more importance
than any he could discharge there; 2d, he was
elected without his consent, and against his
avowed wishes : 3d, his mind was devoted to
such objects as would render him incapable of
doing justice to Ins constituents.
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