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receipt sos cueing hams. For curing eighteen pounds of ham, or in the like proportoin for any quantity, take one ounce of salt jtetre, a tea-spoon full of potash; mix them in a strong pickle, and let tlie hams ]av in it for six weeks. If the hams are small, a lew days less will answer. Before hanging up, wash them well in warm water, and baste the fleshy side with a mixture of cayenne pep per and molasses, winch will prevent the flies disturbing them. This receipt is worth a year’s subscription of any newspaper, to a per 6on having hams to cure. There can be no mistake about it, as we have it direct from the lips of a gentleman whose hams are worth double those cured in the common manner. A lawyer in Ireland, who was pleading the cause of an infant plaintilF, took the child up in his arms, and presented it to the jury, suffused with tears. This had a great efleet till the op posite lawyer asked what made him cry. ‘‘lie pinched me !” answered the little innocent. Tiie whole court was convulsed with laughter. CAUTION TO BOOK-BORROWERS. A verdict of twenty guineas was given in ihe Sheriff’s Court on Tuesday, against a gen tleman whose wife extracted some engrm lugs from a work lent to her by a friend. OFFICE UNDER TIIE CENTRAL HOTEL, THIRD DOOR ABOVT. HIE TOST -OFFICE, AND IN T!IE REAR OF (ADJOININ'?) THE MACON LYCEUM AND LIBRARY SOCIETY’S READING ROOM. MACONr Saturday February 10, 1333. Cotton Market. Bat small quantities have been coming in, owing to the extreme badness of the roads. Sales are brisk.— Brices ranging from 8 to 9} cents. ter The Superior Court of this County adjourned on yesterday, after a session of three weeks, save o-ne day. ?TWc learn that an individual by the name -of Burnet, fell overboard, from a Cotton box, below the Bridge, yesterday and was drowned. lie was in the employ of one of the B rating Companies. Farther par ticulars we have not heard, concerning him or the un fortunate circumstance. &T We have had much rain during tire past week, and our River is remarkably high. The roads, i.i ai quarters, are distressingly cutup, and in some places almost impassible. The mails, as usual, are failing and we may soon expect a large mass of wet mutilated pa per, with scarcely an intelligible direction or distinct ar ticle among the whole. But, we presume, it is use'ess to complain of these cvi! c , as it will be answered that the rain cannot bo stopped, and c on£equenily the papers and other valuable periodicals must be ruined. It is strange that among the numberless water prool and weather proof inventions, that nobody ever thought of inventing a water proof mail bag, or weather proof stage coach. We venture that the Post Masters will patron ize such an invention, and all the newspaper Editors give it u puff at least. , 53* We arc much pleased at the re-appearance of the “ Southern Literary Journal.” Ii bears the marks of improvement, which we hope will continue to in crease. It is now edited byß. R. Carroll—published by J. S. Burgess, Charleston—and we hope its success may be commensurate with its merits. XT The recent Editorial Convention, held ut Rich mend, Virginia, promises to do much good in e’evating the tone and character of tbs Press in tha State, the principal end and object of the Convention. ?*lanv good resolutions were passed in furtherance of such views. The “ Old Dominion” has set a good example in this regard, (as in many others,) and we should be glad to see Georgia following it. The “ Telegraph” has made a proposition to that effect, but we are sorry to say, many have not noticed it; it certainly deserves their consideration. But mum is the word with us.— By-the-way, Dr., will you please tell us what you meant by that word “docked” ? We con less our simple ig norance, and know you will pardon and enlighten us on the subject. For, how shall a man know, except he be taught ? Among other resolutions offered by the Convention, the following arc, in substance, a part: 1. That subscriptions shall be considered due in ad-; vance, and for a year’s publication, unless ordered and paid for in advance for a shorter time. 2. That no publication shall be sent to the order of any new or unknown subscriber, unless paid for in ad vance, or on satisfactory reference ; but to one unac quainted with this regulation a single number may be sent with a copy of this regulation. 3. That all delinquent subscribers, whose ability to pay may be unknown to the publisher, be erased from the list, at the end of two years from the time when the payment in advance was due. 4. That it be recommended to editors to publish at 6c head of their papers, their advertising rates, end that they adhere to them strictly, and that the rates be such as to give a fair compensation for the labor pertonned. 5. That it be recommended to editors, not to employ any apprentice, who may have left his employer’s ser vice before the expiration of his time, unless with the consent of his former employer. Commercial Hank. The annual election for five Directors for this Bank took place on Monday last, pursuant to the Charter.— I’he following gentlemen constituting the Board for the just year w ere all “re-elected, viz : A r . C. Munroc , I Tush Craft , Leroy Napier, ]Vi Ilium B. Parker, Thomas Taylor. Nathan C. Monroe, Esq. was unanimously re-elec ted President. {Er At a mooting of the Macon Benevolent and Mu tual Aid Association, on Tuesday Evening las% the fol lowing officers were elected for the ensuing six months, viz.: J, C. EDWARDS, (re-elected,) President. CHARLES SEARS, Vice-President. II- I). STARR, Secretary. 11. F. ROSS, (rc-eJoctcd) Treasurer. DIRECTORS: Cepttus Smith, William T. Ml'ebctl, William G. Thema.%, Charles 11. Bradley. DETROIT, JANUARY 12, 1839. The capture of the Patriot schooner and stores, by the Canadians, disconcerted all tiie {plans of the invading army. They immedi lately retreated from Bo.s Blanc, to an Arne | riouu island. Dissensions arose among them, ■ and some of tiie o nice re withdrew from the i service. Tee extreme cold weather produced ! much suffering. Confidence was gone in the co maunders, arid the force iias Anally disband ed. | Nothing rein tins but legal proceedings {against tho.e who have violated the law. All j danger being now past, and the a tempt to irevolutionise Canada, having boen frustrated, the public officers begin to take measures for I the preservation of their places. They as some the port and bearing of authority, anu doubtless, we shall be amused with the last act of their farce under the semblance of judicial, proceedings. You may be assured, however, that most of our public officers are too far im plicated in lb’s matter, to press very closely tiie so prosecutions. Their remisness, at least, and the participation of same of t ieiu in the enterprise, have encouraged mid sustained it. Nay, otherwise, it might have been crashed in its infancy. We shall pro 1 - ibly be in an unsettled condi tion for a long time to eo.no. M ich iil-feel ing exists on both sides of the lire. In Cana ■da it is not without cause. Ano tire force in vading its territory, mi nriue 1 ship sailing to and fro before its villages, and firing with can non shot into their dwellings, have given good reasons for exasperation on that ide. Oar authorities are proved to be entirely in competent, if not unwilling, to maintain our neutrality; and mu.g surely they have mani fested no very anxious wish to do so. A de tachment of the baited States Army ought to be stationed o i this frontier forthwith; noth- ing else, at present, will sulfite. Tiie next most important thing, is a resolute and deter mined svt of officers for the United States.— For want of this, we have been nearly, if not quite, involved in war. From the Cleavcland Herald, Jan. 18. The Detroit mail has just arrived, bringing some late, if not important intelligence from the emigrants who left this place some days since, under the direction of Col. Sutherland. • The following is an extract of a letter from iCaot. Townsend to Umbstater of this city, j dated bo is blanc, Jan. 12. Friend Unibstatcr : —We arc in camp, and I have been ont with my company and anoth-j er, and took Bobelow (Bois Blanc) Island;) but have lost a schooner and three pieces of, cannon, with about 15 men. We live hard,! my dear fellow —it is horrible, but we shall stick to it. I lost all my baggage in the schooner, and consequently have to suffer; but lam em barked and will not shrink. Give me your best wishes. I have just learned that it is re ported that 1 was among the killed. It is not so. lam yours, dec. E. M. TOWNSEND.” From ihe Frcdonia N. Y. Censor. We are not certain but Van Renaselaer and McKenzie have removed the venue in their tri al with the Canadians to Chautauque county. Five loads of arms, said to be from Navy Isl and, arrived in this village on Wednesday last where they were unloaded and the teams re turned to the cast. If this is the fact, ihe Pa triots will be in little danger of McNab’s bombs. l There are now and then seen in this villiage, or passing through it, some of the old (seurless) veterans from Navy Island. Their destina tion is unknown, for they are as mum as an un renouncing freemason. N. Y. Daily Express DEATH OF OSEOLA. The Charlestom Mercury of the Ist inst. says:—“ This fur famed Chief paid the debt of nature at Sullivan’s Island, on Tuesday night. lie had been sick for some time— when wc saw him at tiie theatre, he looked sad and tired of the world. He was attacked with a catarrhal fever; but whether he fell a victim to the common course of the disease, or to the harrasments of a vexed and disappointed spir it, is a matter of doubt—probably a combina tion of tiie two. He had the best medical at tendance and we believe was in nothing ne glected—but it would not do— his proud and | unconquerable spirit refused to be chained to a j captive ho ly. We shall not write his epitaph or his funeral oration, yet there is something in the character of this m ill not unworthy of the respect of live world. From a vagabond •child, he became the masterspirit of a long oe desperate war. lie made himself —no m in' owed less to accident. Bold and decisive ini action, deadly but consistent in hatred, dark in revenge, cool, subtle, sagacious in council, lie estahlised gradually and surely a resistless ascendency over his adoptive tribe by the dure ingof his deeds, tiie constancy of his hosJdi iv to whites, and the profound cnif of his poh ev. In council be spoke little —he made tin otlicr chiefs his instruments, and what they de livered in public, was the secret suggestion iff the invisible master. Such was Oseola, who will lx? long remembered as the man that wit! the feeblest means, produced the most terrfbh offects.” A GIRL OF SIXTEEN. It is rarely that a girl of sixteen reproves so j riously. A pretty sullenness, a pettish rotor* or a gay badinage are her weapons ; but whe tiie light of a just indignation does dart from • youthful eve, w hen with an elevated form, kindling glance, a crimson cheek, and a vole half tremulous, half authoritative, she denoun ces error, sages may bend before her. Two pieces of original Poetry, anil «*■ veral othe articles, in type, but necessarily crowded out. MACON LYCEUM AND LIBBAKV .SO CIETY. S'N consequence of f'ie inclemency of (hr* weather flu meeting of the Directors of this Institution called o. Thursday last, at the Reading Room, was postponed t next Thursday Afternoon, the loth instant, at four o' eloeh. A punctual attendance is recur sed on irnportan business. AMBROSE BABER, President. The following gentlemen compose the Board of Di rectors — Washington Foe, Jerry Cowles, Robert Collin .*• Ji. B. Weed, Levi Eckley, Hugh Croft, Charles Day John J). Wynn, Isaac G. Seymour, Thomas /?. Ijimari C. B. Cole, William B. Parker, James Goddard , and A H. Chappell. February 10 lfir COMMERCIAL RANK, ) Macon, February 6, 1838. \ DIVIDEND NO. 6. A DIVIDEND of Nine Dollars per share out of the profit? of this Bank, for the last twelve months, ha.‘ this day been declared by the Board of Directors, and will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal represen tatives, on and after Monday next, the 12th instant. G. B. CARHART, Cashier. February 10 lCr exujmdrj'Wf. THE subscriber is now prepared to execute all kinds of House, Sign and Ornamental Painting, at his Shop, Mulberrv-street, opposite the Post-Office, and one door below the Central Rail-Road Bank. Orders, either in the city or country, thankfully recei ved and promptly attended to. DANIEL T. REA. February 10 ]6 NKW"i,IVI!RVSTABLU. TIIE subscribers would respectfully inform the citi zens of Macon, and the public generally, that they have opened one of the most pleasant Stables in the State, situated on the block of the Central Hotel, two | doors from the Post-Office. And take pleasure in say ing that they have some of the finest Saddle, Carriage and Sulkey Horses in the country; and are ready at all i times to accommodate persons with Horses, Carriages, and Drivers. J. P. CAREY, C. L. HOWLAND. P. S. The best attention shall be- paid to transient Horses, and the same to Horses kept by the month. February 10 16tf strayelTor stolen On Sunday last, two Hor «es, middle size, nearly urMud.) jfj black, one about ten years t/d old, in good order—the oth er about five years old, with a long tail, I think. No other marks recollected, except the latter Horse is rather low in flesh. Liberal compensation will be made for the Horses, or any information about them, to George C. McNeill, or EDMUND BLAKE. Macon, February 10 16tf BY LAST NIGHT'S MAIL. Nows from Florida! Bv an Express slip from the “ Savannah Georgian," dated February 7, we cull the following important in tclligenoe from I- lorida. It may be relied upon as cor jrec*. A battle was fought on the 21th ultimo, on the Lache llatchee, Ln which the Indians were defeated— though, with a loss on our (tart of nine killed and thirty wounded. General Jesup is among the wounded.— Nothing is suid of the loss of the enemy, though suppos ed to h.iNc been great. Many cattle, hogs and ponies •ure taken by oar troops, with otlier property. A re port reached Garey’s Ferry, on the owning of the 2d instant, via Fort King, that Alligator and Bam Jones had quai rei.td arid separated—Sam Jones having wiih liiit i.at 30 warriors, ihe runners slate the Indians wornd !v coining in at fort I'-jlur in large numbers, vvitlun three daias. Tut* impression is, that these ac counts are founded on truth, as tiie Indians are scatter ed about in sinful parties, without leaders. Reports from the same source, also state, General Jesup, (sub -equent to the battle of the 21:h) was at the head of die dan Lucia River, on a large fresh trail, w ith well groun led hopes of overtaking the enemy. The following Inter accounts, extracts of letters, aro in confirmation of the above St. Augustine, February 3, 1838. VEWS RECEIVED FROM GENERAL JESUP’s ARMY BY EX PRESS THIS MORNING. The substance of a letter received by a gentleman •om an officer at Fort Peirce, dated the 29th of Janua v, 1833, says—“ Jesup has Ijad a fight with the Indians. I'he Tennesseeans generally behaved well. The num or oi the Indians considerably more than has been opposed. The Indians’ loss very trifling, as far as has >een ascertained ; tlieir provisions, cattle and anmiuni on, ascertained to be plenty. They never have fought u lair terms ; in every fight, except Captain Powell’s, iev have had the advantage of ground. There they uid it in numbers, but came out into open ground.— esup fought across a creek, and after the action disco ered that his force was more than sufficient to have irrounded their p.isition, which, from the information I ave received, cannot cover inure than tern acres of round. They had holes morticed in the trees, pick 's set up, and palmettocs set up so as to cover them and •nil blinds, and had cleared away the hammock on he side Jessup attacked them, which exposed his men >!together without their seeing the enemy.” Another loiter from an officer, to a gentleman here, iated at the same place, Ist February, says : “ The southern expose of this evening, brings impor ant news from die army. General Jesup has had a card battle with the Indians, he completely routed them. Ie was severely wounded in the action in the face, but Rill commands, and is in full pursuit of the enemy, who nave fled south. He hud 7 killed on the field and 32 rounded, 2of whom ore since dead. It is reported hat Wild Cat is badlv wounded. The battle was • lUght on the La-chc-lm-chee. This war must soon je ended now.” CHEERING PROSPECT. The Tallahassee Floridian, of 27th ult., allu ling to “ tiie present situation of the frontier” ibserves: “ Fifty indians in the present state of the country, might attack the seat of govern ment, disperse the Legslative Council and * lourt of Appeals, fire the city, and escape with impunity.” The Hr. ship Ruby, Capt. Wescott, arrived yesterday from Liverpool, fell in with the Br. schr. Wellington, on the 19th January in lat. 83 long. 38, 8 days from Halifax to Berbice, in a sinking condtion, and took from her the Cap. tain, crew, and some fish and stores. She having experienced severe gales in the gulf. tfT The following items are from slips of the New- York Daily Express, of the 4th and s:h tnslanf, also re ceived by last evening’s Express Mail: FROM LOWER CANADA. The Montreal Transcript continues to notice the fact that the French Canadians are leaving that city, in consequence, it is reported there, of “orders from Papineau,” who, it is again said contemplates an attack on the city. The Transcript says, on Wednesday night a quan tity of arms were seized by that active officer, Captain Macdonnell, which were on tlieir way to this city from the States. They consist of a large number of pistols, some few small cara bines, and a great many Bowie knives and daggers. We have understood the seizure was made in the neighborhood of St. Phillipe. The arms have been deposited in the Government Stores.” During the month of January not less than twenty-two fires have occurred in this city. STEAM-BOAT SUNK. By a letter, we learn that the steam-boat Gladiator, was snagged on the Mississippi while bound down, about the 18th or 19th ultimo ; 600 bales of Cotton were lost. Her crew and passengers were taken off by another boat and carried in to Vicksburg.