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. t j n t hc convulsion of nature which chan- j
I ,j its bed removing it twelve miles to the
P rt |, war d, these giant animals were destroyed
and embedded together, having sought for se
curity what was then the highest point of land ?
Brunswick Advocate.
EGYPTIAN MUMMIES.
Mr. Buckingham gives it as his opinion
that there are not less than one hundred mil
lions of mummies entombed in Egypt; and he
describes three singular uses that arc now made
of them.
For fuel. The peasantry o! bgypt procure
them, break them in pieces, and use them for
f uc l an d as they have little or no wood, those
dried human bodies servo them in its stead.
The resinous matter and spices which were
used in emballing them, tender them quite in
(lamable, and the odor which is given out at
the period of burning, is said to be quite de
lightful.
For medicinal purposes, in most ot the
bodies there is found solid portions of the bitu
men, or resinous drug, which was used in em
balming. This is taken out of the bodies and
sold in large quantities to merchants at Cairo,
and from thence it is sent to Portugal, Italy,
France and England even, where it is pulver
ized by the apothecaries, clone up in small pa
pers, and sold as a most excellent drug to
cure inward bruises. And for this purpose
hundreds of pounds of this stuff is eaten every
year, taken from the inside of Egyptian mum
mies.
The other use made of them is, for painting.
A celebrated painter in London informed Mr.
Buckingham that the backbone ol an Egyptian
mummy, when it was sufficiently fine, made
the most excellent brown colour of any materi
al known.
Among the ancient Egyptians, the practice
of embalming was universal. And Moses in
forms us, that Jacob and Joseph were embalm
ed, according to the ancient custom, hor its
prevalence among the Egyptian, Mr. Buck
ingham gives the following reason. 1 hey be
lieved in the transmigration of the soul; and
that after the soul left the body, and had fin
ished its transmigration, that is, after it had
lived in the bodies of the cat, dog, monkey, ox,
or what not, at the end of three thousand years,
it would return and re-occupy its first body,
provided it should be found in a suitable state
of preservation. And to preserve the body,
so that it might be a fit receptacle for the soul,
at the end of the three thousand years, it was
embalmed and stowed away in the large sub
terraneous vaults which abounded in that coun
try-
LOVE AND LAW.
A young Lawyer, who had long paid his
court to a lady without much advancing his
suit, accused her one day of “ being insensible
to the power of love.” “It does not follow,”
she archly replied, “ that I am so, because I
am to be won by the power of attorney .”—
“ Forgive me,” replied the suitor, “ but you
should remember that all the votaries of Cupid
arc solicitors.”
For the Southern Post.
WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
TO SYMPATHY.
Oh spirit of the balmly wing,
How sweet thy gentle murmuring
Comes o’er the waste of human woe,
To bid its waters cease to flow.
’Tis like the minstrel’s dulcet lay,
Falling so soft at close of day,
As swift the boatman hies away
Over the deep and dismal lake,
Through thickest fogs and marshy brake ;
It charms the gloomy hours awhile,
And draws him to that fairy isle,
Where, shining ’mid the gloom of night,
He views the beacon’s gleamy light,
And gladly hails it from afar
As his lone spirit’s patron star;
Thus ’mid the murky scenes of lifa,
Its din of war and deadly strife,
The voice of sympathy is heard,
Like music of the forest bird;
And o’er the darkly rolling wave—
Where sad afdiction’s waters la\ e ;
It comes to mingle with the storm
Like some celestial spirit’s form,
And sheds a softening influence round-.
Oh sympathy ! thou sweetest one
Os all who’er my feelings won—
How gladly do I claim thee mine,
And worship at thy mystic shrine s
For when thy gentle form appears,
To shed with me affection’s tears;
Or gently bid them cease to flow,
Or weep to see another’s woe;
Then my warm heart so full and free,
Would fondly beat alone for thee;
And if amid this world’s wade waste,
There ever o’er my feelings past
A thrill of love for one meek form,
Twas her who proudly braved the storm.
That raged so fiercely round my soul,
And swept beyond its high control,
rill she, with sympathetic eye,
Bade the unbending tempest lie ;
And all its maniac zephyrs fill,
Like smitten forms by magic spell.
Thus o’er my soul, let that sweet power,
Supremely reign when tempests lower—
And all its softest influence shed
In gentle blessings round my head ;
Nor life, nor death, nor weal, nor woe,
Shall stop my love’s incessant flow;
Till mingling with the endless sea,
That laves the foot of lif.’s fair tree,
Its distant murmurs dies away
Ft echoes through eternal day.
E. M- P.
OFFICE UNDER THE CENTRAL HOTEL, THIRD DOOR ABOVE
THE POST-OFFICE, AND IN THE REAR OF (ADJOINING)
THE MACON LYCEUM AND LIBRARY SOCIETY’S READING
ROOM.
MACON:
Saturday Morning, April 28, 1838.
Cotton 3larket.
There has been but little variation in the Cotton
Market since our lust. We quote extremes from 6to
9 ccnt3. Principal sales 7to 8| —very litde at 9 cents.
£5“ Our City Subscribers who do not regularly re
ceive their papers, will oblige us by calling and getting
them, and informing us of the fact. Our Carrier boy
having left us, and the impossibility of supplying his
place immediately, has no doubt occasioned many of
them to be neglected.
£5” With pleasure we comply with our correspon
dent's wishes, in publishing a letter from the Spectator,
and particularly recommend it to the attention of our
fair readers. It contains some excellent rules, which,
if persevered in, cannot fail of being productive of the
most beneficial results. And all experience teaches
that, “ the true art of assisting beauty, consists in em
bellishing the whole person by the proper ornaments of
vir.uous and commendable qualities.” And these qual
ities alone, will commend their possessor to the truly
virtuous and high-minded of all ages.
The Macon Volunteers paraded on Monday
morning last, at an early hour, to celebrate the thir
teenth anniversary of the corps. They encamped du
ring the day a short distance above the city. A white
Plume, presentedto the Company by Lieutenant J. A.
Nesbit, was shot for, and won by Private Reid.
Phrenology.
We have partially examined Fowler &, Kirkham’s
work on Phrenology, and must confess, that since our
acquaintance with these gentlemen and their work,
that we are prepared to give much more credence and
respect to the principles of Phrenology, than we have
heretofore done. The examination of our cranium, we
believe, was in the main correct, and withal, quite in
teresting; faults and all came out quite plainly. We
would recommend a trial to those who feel the least
curious or doubtful about their own qualifications.
JiT Messrs. Thompson &. McCafferty have issued
a prospectus for publishing, in the city of Augusta, a
semi-monthly paper to be entitled the “ Augusta Mir
ror,” & devoted exclusively to Literature. '‘[lt will be
printed in quarto form, on a medium sheet, and on neat
and new type. Each number will contain one page of
Music, arranged either for the piano-forte or guitar.”
We learn, the enterprising proprietors have already ob
tained a fair subscription list, and we hope they may be
enabled to prosecute their praiseworthy undertaking
with success. Their terms are three dollars in advance.
The following notice of great natural curiosities at
the South, appeared sonc time since in a Northern pa
per (New Havener.) It is correct so far as it goes, but
by far the most striking and stupendous freak of nature,
is the Stone Mountain in DcKalb county of tliis State.
It rises out, a bold solid rock, to the height of twenty
six hundred feet from the surface of the water at its
base, and covers from 1000 to 1-200 acres of land. The
country around, is rather flat and low than otherwise.
It is remarkable that this extraordinary natural curiosi
ty, has so far escaped public attention, as scarcely to be
known, except by those who live in its vicinity, and the
occasional traveller, who has been accidentally thrown
within view of its stupendous and magnificent sublimi
ty. At the distance of twelve or fifteen miles, it is most
beautifully relieved from the sky by a deeper blue, and
semicircular arch rising out in beautiful and symctrical
proportion. There are many curiosities found upon it
calculated to interest the traveller, both natural and
artificial. It is accessable on its western and eastern
sides, and almost entirely bald, with the exception of
occasional clumps of cedar and hortleberry. Its north
ern side is nearly perpendicular, and presents a sight,
when near, that language is inadequate to describe,
and is almost overpowering to the senses. The view
from its summit is commanding beyond belief, the im
mense range of the Blue Ridge mountains, running at
the distance of from fifty to one hundred miles north
and north-west, is most distinctly seen with their myriad
peaks, dotting the horizon with apparent regularity and
beauty. When you look south, the view, though un
obstructed by mountains, is none the less interesting.
The vast wilderness of trees rising one above another in
continued succession, as you approach the summit, is
most strikingly grand and sublime; with occasional
farms interspersed in the vast round of the far offhori
zon, as if to gvie variety and relief to the extended view.
The southern side is mostly inaccessairie, not in conse
quence of its general steepness, but the large quantities
of loose and shelving rock and general uneveness.
Along the southern brow, extending from the western
to near the eastern sides, is the remains of an old breast
work, built of stone ; and within the recollection of ma
ny of the inhabitants, it was known to be of the general
height of a man’s breast, and in some places higher,
varying as the part was more or less easily approached.
This of itself, is a sufficient field for conjecture and in
vestigation by those who are interested and employed
in investigating the many remains of civilization, that
are to be found in this country. There is also on its
northern verge, a spring approachable by steps, cut by
the hand of man ; its stream is soon lost from the sight,
and no vestage of it can be found at the northern base
of the mountain. In short, it is impossible for the mind
to conceive the half, until gratified with a view, and
even then it is difficult to examine it with any degree of
minuteness, so lost are we in wonder at the magniffi
ceut spectacle.
NATURAL WONDERS.
It in very surprising that two of the greatest
natural curiosities in the world are within the
IT. States, and scarcely known to the best in
formed of geographers aniknaturalists. This
is a beautiful waterfall in Franklin county,
Georgia ; the other a stupendous precipice in
Pendleton district, South Carolina. They are
both slightly mentioned in tfie late edition of
Moore’s Geograpliv; but not as they deserve.
The Tuccoa Falls *a;c much higher than the
falls of Niagara. The column of water is
propelled beautifully over a perpendicular rock,
and when the stream is full it passes down
without being broken. All the prismatic ef
fect seen at Niagara illustrates the spray at
Tuccoa. The table Mountain in Pendleton
county, South Carolina, is an awful precipice
of nine hundred feet. Many persons reside 1
within live, seven* or ten nnies of this grand j
spectacle, who have never curiosity or taste j
I enough to visit it. It is now, however, occa- |
sionally visited by curious travellers, and some- j
I times men of science. Very few who have
i once cast a glimpse in that almost boundless
abyss can again exercise sufficient fortitude to
approach the margin of the chasm. Almost
every one is looking over involuntarily falls to
the ground senseless, nerveless and helpless
and would inevitubly be precipitated and dash,
ed to atoms, were it not for measures of cau
tion and security, that have always been deem
ed indispensable to a safe indulgence of the cu
riosity of the visitor or spectator. Every- one
in proceeding to tlie spot whence it is usual to
gaze over the wonderfull deep, has in his im
agination a limitation graduated by a reference
to instances with which his eyes has been fa
miliar. But ill a momcint, eternity, as it were
is presented to his astonished senses, and lie is
instantly overwhelmed. IJis system is no
longer subject to his volition or his reason,
and he falls Hire a mass of pure water. lie
i then revives, and in.awild delirium surveys a
i scene which, for a while, he is unable to define
by description or imitation. Plow strange it
is that Tuccoa Palls and the Table mountain
are no more familiar to Americans! Either
of them would distinguish an empire or State
in Europe. New Havener.
S3" It has become the fashion of the day, now that
the God-like Oceola is dead, to extol him to the skies,
and to pity his poor and persecuted race; anil waste
unmeasured invective against the government of the
United States, for maintaining a war for a Territory,
which is their’s by every right by which one man can
hold property, which was once another’s—and for
which he has given a just and equal consideration. Yet
this is not sufficient in the eyes of these grumbling phi
lantrophists, who, notwithstanding their boasted charity
of feeling, for these poor oppressed people, can easily for
get the many victims of savage barbarity, in the persons
of helpless women and children, whose heart-rending
shriek, while writhing beneath the tomahawk of a mer
ciless savage, is lost upon his brutal car, and alike upon
liis upholder. And now that the pitying hand is ex
tended, to save from desolation and massacre a fair
portion of this country, the cry is raised against the
Government, as a cruel oppressor, seeking to extermi
nate a foe, in order to possess his lands, which very foe
are even now murdering their own brethren, sisters,
and even children. This is philanthropy with a ven
geance, very like that which would suffer the indigent
poor of our own neighborhood, to perish and die for
want of sustenance, while thousands are expended to
liberate and create disturbances in another neighbor
hood, among the slaves of another. Strange, yet true.
But hear some of the language used by those who feel
so much for the poor oppressed Indian.
The extent of the Indian’s wrongs, the a
mount of injury lie has received, are known
only to Him who knows all things. A mere
glance at some of the items in that long black
catalogue, is sufficient to mantle the brow of
an American with shame, and kindle in the
breast of a foreigner the keenest indignation.
Our government has done, for a few years
past, and is now doing, acts that woud disgrace
the Autocrat of Russia or a wandering tribe
iof marauding Arabs. Look at its treatment
| of that little band of brave and gallant Semi
noles—-that band of martyrs, fighting, bleed
ing, dying for their freedom ; offering them
selves up on the altar of liberty—on the altar
of their country ! The United States, not
content with the vast territory which it already
possesed, sought, madly sought, to obtain by
fair means or by* foul, the unexplored swamps
which they occupied. A few straggling Seni
moles, possessing- no authority, were induced
to make an agreement with the United States’
agent, and in the name of their tribe to surren
der up their possessions, and remove to the
territory west of the Mississippi.
The treatment which the Chcrokees have
received at the hands of our rulers, lias been,
if any thing more agravated than tho wrongs
of the Seminoles.
Tins is fine language to hold toward government
and in favor of a race who has ever delighted in mur
dering the iunocent, and at the same time, have al
ways had that justice they deserve. There is no in
stance in our recollection, where the United States
have taken lands from Indians, without their consent,
and paying them a just equitable consideration for their
lands. No, it has been such a spirit as this, and such
language as this, which have caused so many Indian
difficulties, together with other interested motives. Ma
ny have been active in stirring them up to these rebel
lions ; teaching them that they have been wronged and
cheated of their rights, after they have entered into a fair
exchange of tleir property As for Oceola, let the j oats
sing his praises, and dwell in exordiums upon his In
dian virtues—but Heaven Save us prose rs, when we
can flatter like the following
The virtues of this Indian chief are without
a parallel either in ancient or modern times,
and his memory will ever be cherished and
honored so long as distinguished courage, un
wavering constancy, consumate talents, and
devoted patriotism, find admirers among men.
Literature in JJaltimre. —Eight or nine of
the literary societies in Baltimore have held a
convention, and determined to establish a read- 1
ing-room, and to give courses of lectures.
Compeud ol News. )
In December last, it appears by the reports, there
were 832 Banks in the United States. Eighteen
divorces were granted at the last session of the Ken
tucky Legislature.———This is the year for the appear
ance of the seven-year Locusts- their last appearance
being in 1331. The Ohio Legislature has abolish
ed imprisonment fur debt in that State. Mr.
Charles Genois has been elected to the Mayorality oi
New Orleans.— A Printing Press, said to strike off
6tXX) per hour, is expected in New-York, for the “ Cour
isr &. Enquirer.”* -The publication of the “Parlour
Review,” has been discontinued—‘the Editor having
sunk a considerable sumin the enterprise A Grid
fish, nearly afoot in length, was recently caught in the
Schuylkill. It is partly of a deep crimson color, but
chiefly clothed in burnished gold. Two brasS field
pieces, six pounders, intended for the Augusta Guards,
arrived in Hamburg on Saturday last, by the rail road
from Charleston..——. The keeper if a blooded horse,
near Cincinnati, was killed instantly, a short time since,
by the horse biting him in the jugular vein.——The
Honorable Mr. Ripley, member of Congress from Lou
isiana, died at his residence, near New Orleans, on the
29th ultimo.——Dickens (Boz,) has issued a prospec
tus for anew wotk, to bo entitled the “ Life and Ad
ventures of Nicholas Nicleby.”—»Twenty«nine per
sons died in New- Y ork last week of consumption.—
Stephen Thomas, Esq. one of the oldest citizens of
Athens, died in that place on Sunday, the 15th instant.
An intelligent writer estimates the specie in Eu
rope at eighteen hundred millions of dollars. At
: this present moment, (says the Louisiana Gazette,)
j there are seven widows to one widower, in the town of
Natchffoches. Sir Andrew Hay lias been appoint
ed Governor of Burmuda, with a salary of X‘6,000 per
annum. Mr. Dunkani, late Cashier of the L-.'Fay
ette Bank at Boston, has been convicted of perjure.
The Land office at S'. Stephens, (Ala.) has been
destroyed by fire ; books saved. At a public
dinner in New-York, previous to his departure for
Liverpool, Sir Francis Head gave, as a toast, the
health of General Scott, which he prefaced with some
appropriate remarks. There are four steamboats
constantly plying between Galveston and Houston,
Texas.-- Six thousand bales of Cotton have been
recently destroyed, by fire, at New-Orleans, and one
thousand six hundred, at Selma, Alabama. By
recent arrivals at New-York from Europe, §1,512,840
in specie, have been received, and §280,000 at New-
Orleans Shares in the Charleston and Cincinnati
Rail Road Company, has been sold in Tennessee at a
premium of six per cent.
*From England.
The Cotton Plant.
The Savannah Georgian of Monday last says, “ The
steam boat Cotton Plant, Capt. Walker, was, we are
informed, snagged on Tuesday last, (17th,) about 60
milc3 below Hawkinsville. Her cargo was composed
of Cotton, of which about 100 bales will probably be
damaged.
The boat has since been got off and will be saved.
A steam boat has been sent from Darien to take her
cargo off.
Communicated.
Mr. Editor :—lf I am not mistaken there
has been some injustice (lone a “Village Bard”
in the publication of his la«t piece. If you
will read the four lines of conclusion, you will
find nothing like sense, connection, or metre
in them ; but by referring to the piece in the
Post, of the 14th, called “Evening Clouds,”
those very identical lines are used in its ter
mination. Whoever heard of “ feint stars
fading at almost every breath” 1 Please ex
amine the manuscript, and publish the “ Dream
of Innocence” as it is there inscribed by the
author. Respectfully, V. B.
SC?” With pleasure we re-pubUsh the “ Dream of In
nocence,” in order that we may do the justice to the
author he deserves. We certainly have done ourselves
also, a very great injustice in suffering so glaring an er
ror to appear in our columns. It was, however, an
oversight, which we can now correct, and which wc
hope will be satisfactory to all concerned.
Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road. —
The company having complied with the re
quisition of the charter, the Governor of Ten
nessee, (says the Cincinnati Evening Post,)
has subscribed for six hundred and forty thou
sand dollars of the stock in conformity to law.
The instalment is fully paid up at Knoxville,
and the stock at a premium.
Mental decay.
Sir Isaac Newton lost the use of his reason
before the animal frame was arrested by the
hand of death. So was said of a Mr. Swisset,
that he often wept because he was not able to
understand the books he had written in his
younger days. Cornivus, an exquisite orator
of the Augustan age, became so forgetful as
not to know his own name. Simon Toilrnay,
in 1201, after he had out-done all Oxford for
learning, at last grew such an idiot as not to
know one letter from another or ouo thing
from another.
A skiffcontaining five meft, was lately cap
sized whilst attempting to cross Licking river,
Kentucky. Four of the men perished, and
the fifth (a Mr. Jones) would have shared a
like fate, but for the heroism displayed by a la
dy named Mrs. Lee, who plunged into the
stream, threw a pole to him, and thus saved
him from drowning. Mr. J. is a man of for
tune, and although he had never seen Mrs. L.
before, (who is a young widow) he ofTced his
hand in marriage, which was accepted, and
they were joined in wedlock immediately.—
What a glorious water haul
PROGRESS OF BENEVOLENCE.
“ Benevolence is daily more and more gen
erally acknowledged as the true rule of con
duct. The maxim ‘live and let live, ’ will be
soon superseded by a still nobler principle of
cr, ‘ live and hcly to live, ”
A FAIR T
£ y~ The Ladies of tlie Macon j
Auxiliary Education Society will
City Hall, on the Evening of Th
May nex*. The ladies and gentle
its vicinity, are respectfully invited
ICE-CREAMS, and other delit. . a
during ilia evening.
£Cr Tickets of admission to the Fair, twenty-five
cents; Tickets to the Snpper, one dollar. Cluldren
half price.
Macon, April 23th. 1333.
' By C. L. Howland,
On Tuesday yfomingi at 10 o’llock, at Auction
A GENERAL assortment of Dry Goods, consisting
of Calicoes, French Muslins,
Cambrics, Homespuns, Checks,
Colored Silks and Satins,
Cheneal Dresses and Shawls, &c. See.
with a variety of Summer Clothing, too tedious to men
tion. Sale to be continued from day to day until sold
out. April 23 87r
Washington Eire Company—No. 1 !
MEET at your Engine House, This Afternoon, at
five o'clock, for Drill.
By order.
JCSSPII E. WELLS, Secretary.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the Company
will be held, at the Engine House, on Thursday Even
ing mx!, the ‘3d of May, at J past 7 o'clock.
April 23 ' 27r
NIAGARA FIRE COMPANY !
THE members of tlie above Company will attend a
meeting of tlie Company, at tlie Engine House,
This Afternoon, at five o'clock.
By order of the Foreman.
THOMAS IIARROLD, Secretary.
April 23 27r
cIL I*
V A
PHRENOLOGY.
MR. L. N. Fowler of the New York Phrcnologie*
al Cabinet, in connection with Mr. Kirkham, au
thor of Kirkhrm’s Grammerand Eloqution, visit this
place for the purpose of giving instructions in tlie above
named science by lectures aim examinations.
Mr. Fowler will give a public lecture this evening in
the Acadamy, at half past 7 o’clock. Ladies and gen
tleman who are interested in tlie science are respectful
ly invited to attend. If desired, the science will be test
ed before the audience by the examination of head;-.
For the sake of proving the science true or false, Mr.
I’, is anxious to test it in any proper way which the in
ginuityof the individuals may devise.
Messrs. F. & K. have taken rooms at tlie Ventral
Hotel, for the purpose of receiving company for exami
nation. Ladies will be waited on in the Parlour; Gen
tlemen in room No. 30. Families and parties can be
visited it requested.
£5“ It a suitable place can be obtained* a number of
Lectures may be expected during next week.
April 23 27r
.
Macon mechanics’ society,
HfIXHERE will lie a meeting of this !v> ( -iety on Tati*
X day Evening next, Ist May, ui 7J o'clock, at
T. B Clark’s. The members arc requested to attend.
, , 100 LF. BLOWN, Secretary.
Ami 23 27r
PROPERTY Foil SAT/12.
iT - % . r " 11 * subscriber intending ; 0 move from *****
K.I Vicoa, offers the following town proper!v Os
tor su.e, to v, it •, the .Store House on Out- 1 *
on Avenue, next n.jove Chapman & Childers’ store ;
he Store House (with the Dwelling connected) on Mul
berry stree , now- occupied by A. McArn, and the
JJ.w -ling Ho ise on Walnut street, which I now ocell
i’)- liosiacs wlr.eii, lam offering the ballance of my
proper. y in tie.. State, and several bodies of valuable
Land m Mis iissinpi.
An excellent ( <)()K is oflered—all on favorable terms
as i positively design moving (to Baltimore, Md.) early
,n A» JNO. Rutherford.
March 3. jjj t s
DR. E. S. ALDRICH
RESPECTFULLY tenders his services m a Phv
sician and Surgeon, to the inhabitants of Macon,
and its vicinity, and would be grateful to such as mat
favor him w ith iheir patronage.
s£r Office on Commerce-Row, over Levi EckJev'i
Store. At night, he rriay be found at his room in tho
Cen(ml Hotel. March 31
HARTFORD
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY I
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT,
Incorporated in ISIO with a Capital of ¥150,000, and
TKitDCr to increase to $250,000.
a quarter of a century, transacted its extensive
business on the most just and liberal principles— paying
its losses with die most honorable promptness; and the
present Board of Directors pledge themselves in this pai
tieular, fully to maintain the high reputation of th«
Company. It insures on the most favorable terms, ev*
ery description of property against loss and damage by
Fire, hut takes no marine risks.
Application for Insurance may be made either par*
sonafly, or by letter, to its Agent in this city: and nil
renewals for ris as now running by this Company on
property in this city, may be made by application K»
the Agent. WM. B. JOIIN3TON, Agenf.
Macon, Apnl 21. 1333.