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I' MACON: —— Saturday Woming, February 24, 1333. I XT’ If our readers do not fi.id much of news in our l„ e , e ht paper, they will pardon we hope ; there no Keing matters of interest stirring in the great world, h r ot our f aU lt; and of a!! the tnoods, or modes, there are, Either in language or feeling, the uncreative inood is fcertainly all-prevailing with us at present. I With regard to Florida, we are entirely in the received nothing in the shape of news for B0! ne days past. We hope, however, that Jesup is bring- I in«r matters to a close in this quar tr, as it is really bc i coming to be a very sore subject—mid one, of all others, Ewe would prefer to see at an end. 1 It will be seen by reference to our advertising ■columns, that Mr. O. B. Loomis, Portrait Painter, is ■now in our city. He invites persons who may wish to ■have their likenesses drawn, to call and examine his specimens for themselves. We have no doubt that those who do so, will be amply satisfied of the qualifica tions of the Artist, to draw true to nature. $y- >lr. Mount’s Dancing School opens on Tuesday next. This gentleman is too well known here to require recommendation. And those who desire to acquire proficiency in the “graceful art," will never have a better opportunity than the present one offers. ' ! Tire-remains of Jeremy Stone, Esq. one of the first settlers of Macon, and for a long time a Merchant ofSavannah, of the house of Stone, Washburn &. Cos. were brought up in the steam-boat Chieftain, from Sa vannah, (says the Messenger,) and interred on Monday last, on the East side of the River. Mr. Stone died in Savannah during the last summer. His remains were disintered and removed here, where several of his chil dren are buried. An election for Directors of the Marine andJßrc Insurance Bank, held in Savannah, the following gen tlemen were elected for the Branch in this city : James Goddard, 'Washington Poe, E. D.'Tmq f, John li. Ihys , David Flanders. And at a meeting of the above named D recors, on Saturday last, in this city, James Goddard, Esq. was elected President. DCr - The>prfcsent Canada struggle will, in all proba bility, soon terminate, without effecting the object for which it was intended, or in the least bettering the con dition of the Canadians. Oar sympathies have beta •nlisted a good deal in their favor, from the simalarity of their situation to that of our own, in the Colonial war. But how much soever our sympathies may have been enlisted, or our feelings warmed in their favor we can but deprecate the couse taken by many American citi zens in aiding, abetting and forwarding the designs of the revolutionists ; not only that it is fraught with dan ger, but a violation of those obligations of national law and good faith, which alone can maintain the peace and amity of nations. With regard to the assistance ren dered by many of our citizens to Texas, die case is es-; sentially different. M.sra'e and disorganization was; the order of die day ; her citizens were suffering a ty-; ranhitai anti oppressive law, enforced in direct opposi tion to the treaty previously made frith the Mexicali Government, and which was the main cause of die country’s being settled by citizens of the United Suites; and which, under the former regulations, might now have been a prosperous and happy country. A tother reason which might go to justify such a course, is the manner that Government has acted toward our own ; 1 perfectly regardless of our rights; our vessels were \ plundered and their crews imprisoned, and in many in- J stances, murdered ; and these aggressions were se quent and of such a nature as to justify, on our part, direct and open war; but in no instance did Giveru ment authorities interfere or connive at the course taken by Texas. That this is the case with regard to Canada is somewhat questionable. We hope, however, for the honor of our country that it may be so; aid tha , if this struggle should not result in any good to the Canadas, it will, at least, not terminate in a difficulty between the United States and Great Britain, as the couse juencos must be most injurious to all the parties conserned. The treatment of Lady Head, while on her way to New-York, is disgraceful in the extreme. Lissome such outrage as this, which we fear will bring the two Governments into collision, tnflmgas they may appear of'themselves. Disastrous wars have been .he conse quence of acts much less trivial i:i their nature. For the Sou hern Post. TO A HYACINTH. Sweet flow’r, whose budding tints display Their beauty at the early day ; Whose fragrance fills the es'ening air, When twilight gathers dew-drops there ; Yure as the gems that glittering lie, On tender Woman’s melting eye, I hail thee as an emblem true, ’Of worth—:thy modest owner's due. Sweet flow’r, the youthful hand that placed Thy germing bud within this shrine, gentle worth and virtue graced, Ftm would 1 ho;>e to call it mme ; ’’With loves’ bright smile to deck my bow’r, To light with joy my onward way ; Then should indeed each flittering liour iVYith ceaseless, rapture-paes away! * * INQUIRY OF Ay ORPHAN’ TOR ItSR LOST FATHER. The folio wing leiici, written by a little or phan girl, speaks lor itself. It appeared in the .Southern Reiig.ous Telegraph. I Van Villa gel Oct. 13, 1837. From H. T\ Balings.—l have learned by my geography Taut ti.e Southern people are \erv no.,j),tubie to travellers. 1 often express a wish to my teacher tout 1 could go to Vir ginia, and invite tome of those kind people to melp me find my and ar, dear latiicr. Since it is i.ot now pi oper taut i should-go, she says t.mt I may write u letter and send to the kind people in Va gima, and ask them to make such ; uujmr.es, or use suca means lor me, as their lithe girls would l.ke to have used, if they had a lo.eJ father lost. My father’s name is Daniel Billings. Pour years ago, wr en l was not quite half as eld as 1 now am, lie told he was going to Virginia. I cried very much, and said, ‘don’t go off, father, I do love you better than any body else since my dear mother is dead and put in the cold grave !’ 1 lernember how he wept when lie prayed by my side the last time—he said, ‘O God, bless my little daughter, and spare our lives to see each other again.’ When he kissed me tne last time, his tears fell on my checks, and he could hardly say, ‘ it is best for me to go now, but I will come baak again.’ O, my dear fat: er, why don’t he come?— Grandmother says, perhaps he is sick or de range! so he has not wrote to us for more than two years. O, will not somebody tell me if he is sick; or, if he is dead,-where is his grave ? He told me when I went to my mother’s grave, tnat I must think her spirit now in hea ven with Go 1 and the Lamb. 1 do want to know if my father is there too. Will not some good people in Virginia write to me something about my father—and 1 Will daily pray to my heavenly Father to bless ali t;.ose who pitv and befivend me a lonely orphan. -HARRIET F. BILLINGS. T.ie friends of humanity at the South will pie ioC notice the above, penned by the “ lone ly orpaan,” only cliild of Daniel Billings, who left Bane, (Massachusetts) about lour years since, as an agent for selling patent Sarsparil la Me id, at'R c amoad city, (Va.) dicing un successful in thatenterpnze, lie undertook to build a machine for shoeing rails upon the rail ro id ; and about two years since, he was en g .go Fas engineer on t. e Richmond and Fred rick iburg rail-road, since which time he has not been heard of by his friends at the North. T.iey fear all is not well with him, and are w riting with anxious solicitude to learn the re sult. Any communications concerning him left wifi the Editor, addressed to Isaac T. Bab bit, Birre, (Mass.) will bo very gratefully re ceive!. ISAAC T. BABBIT. Tiie exquisite pathos and simplicity of the Oo.'p.um’s cry, cannot fail to stir the deepest sympathies of every feeling and unsophisticat eJ heart. If the world contains the lost parent, or the ext i eo.ers his remains, she vvl- surely find him oat, or learn where is his grave. T ic winds of Heaven shall waft her tender appeal, and the kindly angels of the press spread the language of her earnest-prayer to tie remotest corners of our land. And may He vvao heareth t ae “young Ravens when they cry soon send glad tidings to lighten her soli tary heart. i Tne circumstance would afford an adrnira- I hie theme for Mrs. Sigourney’s sweet muse. Hartfoid Register. A REVERIE. T would! were a fairy. To rove all day by the music of tic waters—to hear the tales of memo ry from the cold blue waves, of shipwreck and jof storms —to learn a lasting lesson from the i coral insect’s to i—to weep o’er the beautiful, t ic brave, in t ie r ocean grave, the blue-eyed in fid of merry England, tiie dark-eyed girl of Spain—to gaze on glittering jewels, gold, long since buried by tae inconstant wind —to waten t ie mighty monsters of the deep at their un .see.nl v gambol—to wander beneath the waves : of fit io ness abyss—with thought of Him, the 1 Eternal o ie of wonders ! I would and were a fairy. To leave on swift wing man’s dwelling-place, for the bright plan ets afar—to. stay my footsteps on the sphere wae ice issues tie soft light for lover’s meet ings—to h>e not dazzled by the sun’s bright ravs, but pierce its hidden attributes—to light o l* S iturn’s belt.? and wondef at their beauty-to tr t Z e from some high resting place upon the im mensity of space sprinkled with sparkling gems iiid rolling worlds, and raise my adoration iVi to II rn woo governs all ! I would I were a fairy. To skim o’er the bright surface of our own fair home—to listen to the song of birds in their native grove which man lias not polluted—to tread tlreholy ground of suffering more than human—to meditate on wondrous love by tire shores oiti.e fat Jordan —to linger on the battle grounds of ti e heioic Greeks of Missilonghi and Thermopylae—to gaze with awe on the stupendous ruins of Im perial Rome—to glide by the light boatman’s song o’er the still waters of the bridal Adriatic —to” taste the luxuries of the torrid zo; e and look from the summit of eternal snows upon the clouds beneath, with blessing for the love vv.iich gives to man such inheritance! I would I were affairy. To seek the rest wherein the tiny ones are l eaicd with tende. care—to enter that mother’s breast and find the springs whence flows such human foresight— to watch the maiden thought of genius until its lofty themes spread-to the hearts of all—to fol low the innocent maiden on the green hill side, through all the-windings of her happy dreams speaking the heart’s content —to strip the gau dy frippery of pride and rank from-effthe no ble of the land, and see if there he not envy for a running brook by a cottage door, with a peas ant’s pure, but well-earned joys—to gaze upon the flitting smile of infant’s sleep, and learn if the r young spirits dream. But, more than all, to catch from the lowly and the mock, the love of virtue and of Heaven ! Xtr A recent writer on Education has the following beautiful, and just, remarks on the subject of develop ing the faculties of a child : O leave him to play, and grow, and be hap py ; and in the lustre of his joyous innocent e remind men of the kingdom of heaven ! Let him play out childhood’s sweet little prelude , to the busy drama of life entirely ad li'itum— his exits and his entrances at his own g*ol 'pleasure. Let him spend the live-long day, if j lie pleases, sub Dio; let him play with Am jphytrite, in her element, and chase the Nymphs on their mountains; let him rival the Fawns iin archness, and the Satyrs in merriment — -and I care not if this bo, at present, his only acquaintance with classic Mythology. The 'more potent he is among his play-felkrtvs— the more inveterate his vagrancy—the more unextinguishable his laughter—the stronger his preference for the outside of a house over the inside—the more invincible his aversion to long sessions and unintelligible lectures —the more hopeful you may think him. And boon Nature, ‘be sure, whose impulses he is obeying —whose laws he is living by—who e c.iild he is—will impel his little mind to all the action that will benifit it—to all. that consists w.th its tender immaturity, and rapid growth; teach ing him, by other inspiration than the bitch’s terrors, or the med al,s lure, to ———“ Find tongues in trees, Books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, And good in every thing.” CABINET .FURNITURE AND CHAIR WARE-HOUSE, Cotton-Avenue , ( nearly opposite the Washington Halt,) Macon, Georgia. SPERRY & MEYER have on hand, and are re ceiving, and constantly manufacturing, a splendid aasortment of FURNlTUßE—consisting, m parr, of Sofas, Sideboards. Secretaries, Dining Tables, in set a and single, Centre, Tea and Work Tables, and Bu reaus, of everv doscription; with a full assortment of Bedsteads, Mt.ttrasses, Feathers and Feathertßeds— and a variety of Windsor, Fancy and Baltimore Chairs. The subscribers, having in their employ the best of workmen, can manufacture at the shortest notice every thing in their line, in as good style as it can tie done in the State, and of the best materials. Persons wishing to purchase would do well to call and examine for themselves, as they are offered on the lowest terms for cash. J. A. SPERRY, February 24 6m 14 F. MEYER. DANCING SCHOOL. RN. MOUNT respectfully announces to the La . dies and Gentlemen of Macon, and its vicinity, that he will open a Dancing School on Tuesday, tne 27 h instant, at the Centra! H >tel. Days of notion, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, From 1 o’clock, p. m. for'Ladies, and from 7 to 9 in the evening, for Gen tlemen. Terms 810 for 21 lessons. List left at the Book Store of Messrs. Griffin & Purse, and at the Central Hotel. Februaty24 13tF O. B. LOOJIIS, Portrait Painter, RESPECTFULLY invites the people of Macon, and its vicinity, to call at his room, over Messrs. Rea &, Cotton’s, Commerce-Row, and examine h:~ specimens and judge of their merit for themselves. — Unless his Likenesses are satisfactory no person is ex pected to receive them. February 24 B AC O N OtT AND PURE LEAF BARD, jtyfl 1 nn HAA LBS. choice Bacon, most of which A"”?”" *Ur has been cured here, on the mu? approved principles. 4,000 Leaf Lard, put up in neat covered tin cans, PARKER fc CO. February <34 Cy last Evening's Express 3lail, THE BOWERY THEATRE BLltfsT AGAIN ! The Now-York Daily Express slip, (of TQ.pi received fiy last evening’s Express Mail, says: Y esterday morning, at a quarter past 2 6*- I clock, the interior oi the Bowery Theatre was d.scovcred to he on sue, and in the space of an |. our the .whole building, extending fiom the Bowery t.uougu to Elizubeth-street, was re jduced to a heap of nothing remaining :but the two site wails and a portion of the jlioiit. Ti e fi:e is said to have originated in U.e carj ei.ter’s shop, rear tlic stage. It is u.ardly necessary to udd that every tiling with in t o walls was consumed. Tne most lamentable occurrence wc have yet to record. During the burning of the thea t.e, the interior of w hich blazed like a volcano at the moment ot an eruption, sending the bur ning cinders in every direct on, one of the em bers unfditunntely 101 l thiough a broken pane of u sky-light in a club stable, No. 4UChristie street, setting it instantly on sue, and burning to death a black man named Thomas, who slept in ti e loft, before he could be extricated. It is i ot known how the fire originated, but K is said to have been produced by un incendi* , ary. Chivalry of Rochester to 'Lady Head—Pro ject of Kidknapping the Lieut. Governor yf Ujrper Can ida. VVe regret to learn that a great deal of rude ness and brutality was exhib.ted at the Eagle Tavern, Rochester, to Lady Head, the consort of the Lieut. Governor of Upper Canada, as she passed through that city, on her way to New' York. Her Ladyship was only accom panied by her daughter, and Mrs. Ualrymple, tire widow of the General of that name, and sister of Sir Francis Head. They did not think it necessary to be accompanied tby any gentlemen—as they thought that injprotected females would find a pasport every where in tie gallant ay and sense of honor of the.ether sex, how eveb their feelings might be excited by passing events. Not so thought the patriots of Rochester. A bystander informs us, that Lady Head mid her female companions had taken .tin extra, paid their way through to this chy, and had tire way bill in their possession. At the E igle Tavern, Rochester, where they stopped for an hour’or two, a crowd collected, and were very anxious to know whether Sir Francis was present, and insisted upon know ing the fact. In consequence, several of the mob came into the room, and the clerk of the coach office made a demand for the way bill from Lady Head, and would not be satisfied I until she delivered it up. The language of the crowd was very violent, and the appre hensions of the ladies were very painfully ex cte k by the menaces and curses of the peiv sons round the house, in reference to Six Francis. Connected with this subject, we have ascer t ined that, in expectation of the Lieut. Gov» ernor passing that way, a gang had posted it self at Lewistown, with a view of taking pos session of his person, and carrying him to Lockpoit, wliere the Grand Jury had found a true hill against -him, McNah and others, as be ng accessories in the Sehhisserdnisiness.— Fortunately for the honor and tranquility of these state-!, Sir Francis did not leave his gov ernment to escort his family, feeling fully con fident that females would be treated with re [ spect every where. Had he passed through, the consequences would h ive been painful; he would have resisted any indignity, and the evil passions which urged the instigators of such a plan, would have hurried them into further violence and Lynch law might have been the result. Great Britain would have flown to arms, to avenge the insut o.Tored to the repre [ seutative of its crown, and we should have had Ito make a humiliating apology, of -matittain |an unjust course originating in violence, and j uipported by injustice. It is a‘bad-business n every tespect; and the spirit which prompts such manifestations, will yet set the frontier in a flame, unless energetically and immediately ■e pressed. N. Y. Morning Herald. Washington Fire Company, 1J 4 PPEAR at your Engine House, Tkis Ape ! Vsl "i'odoch, for Drill. Bv order. .J.QS&Pfi E. V/£XJhS,-Secretary. February 21 Niagara Fire Company! rHE member? of the above Company will attend a* tl*e Engine House, ’This Afternoon, ai 2 o clock, fur drill. By’order of the Foreman. THOMAS HARROW Secretary. W*