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iPiaiT2>3»ia^©sr« VOL. I. THE S@S7ffIEI2 333 J Is published in the city of‘Macon every Saturday Morning at two dollars in-advance, three dollars at the end of the year— one dollar a.\d lifts; cents fir six months ; and mailed to country subscribers by the earliest mails, enveloped by good strong wrappers, with legible directions. 55" No subscription received for a less period than six no paper discon tinued, until all arrears are paid. Advertisements will be inserted at the usuff rates of advertising, with a reasonable deduction to yearly ad vertisers. ReOgtous, Marriage and Obituary Notices inserted free of charge. 55* Any person forwarding a ten dollar bill, (post paid,) shall receive six copies, for one year, to be sent to differeut persons, as,directed. 55" Letters, on business, either to the Publisher or .Editor, must com e post paid to insure attention. CENTRAL HOTEI*, MACON, GEORGIA. ■ ■ subscribe! respectfully informs his friends fn|ff and the public in general, that V< has taken the ' *- a bove named Establishment, wl.ich having been recently thoroughly repaired and enlarged at great ex pence_is n ow oiicn for the reception of Travellers, Hoarders, (pc. The chambers are large and airy—the j servants competent and attentive. His Parle shall constantly be supplied with every delicacy the Season j .and Market will turnish. His Bar is stocked with the I •choicest T Vines and Lvpiurs. And in order more eifec itually to make it a first rate House, he has called to his aid the services of Mr. A■ Elder, <>t Baltimore, whose | ‘long experience at Barnuni's City Hotel, has justly en- j titled him to the reputation us a Caterer for the public.— j 'The subscriber, therefore, hopes by his unremitting ex- j •ertions to please, to receive a libera! share of patronage. HORACE R. WARD. N. B. Hood Stabling attached to the Hotel, with faith ful and attentive Ostlers. December 16 Btf j TO RENT. M THE desirable residence on the hill 'built by Gen. Robt. A Beall, and lately occupied by Dr. Randolph, the enclosure contains anrcxtensive variety of choice bearing fruit trees selected at the north, and ornamental shrubbery. ALSO some business houses well located'on Cotton Avenue, for grocery and provision stores. FOR SALE. —Several valuable city lots, and 16 j acres improved land bounding on the city Commons. Troup’s hill and the Houston road, (distant one mile from the court hbbse) with an extensive elevation in front, affording a Commanding view of the City and sur rounding country, and well adapted for private residen ces, the whole, or a part of which will be sold oil ac commodating terms by early application to WM. B. PARKER. March 17. *Hf For Sale. MTHE small House on cotton Avenue, at pres ent occupied by C. G. St. John as a jewelry store. Also for sale, an experience cook Woman. Ap ,plv to JAMES A. NISBET. December 2. 6 For Sale. WOOD lots of Oak and Hickory Land, a few miles from Macon Also a FARM es one hundredderes in a good con dition, for planting, three and a half miles from town Dee. 2. 6 Apply to J AS. A. NISBET. BAC O N (Ur AND PURE LEAF LARD, 1 dUk AAA BBS. choice Bacon, most of which " bus been cured here, on the in os approved principles. 4,01X1 Lea f Lard, put up in neat covered tin cans, suitable for families. Applv to WM. B. PARKER & CO. February 21 RH Notice—Copartnership. TIME subscriber having associated with hi..., Allen L. Luce, they will transact business under the -name, style and firm of Wm. B. Johnston & Go. AVM. B. JOIINifTON. Macon, January 1,1833. 13tf NO! ICE. A LL persons indebted to the subscriber, cither by note •s*- or open account, ate verv respectfulh invited to . call and settle the same. WM. B. JOHNSTON. January .20 13tf COTTON GINS. r 11HE subscribers having taken the s!> ap at the cor ■fe ner of Fourth and Walnut-street nearly oppo site the new Presbyterian Church, offer their services o their friends and the public, in the manufacture of Cotton Gins, Sash Doors, Blinds, Pailing for Grave Fen ces, &c. Turning done in all itsvarities; all of which will be done in the neatest manner, and at the shorest notice. BEDSTEADS, in abundance, for sale low. They will make a few Cotton Gins with cast-steel saws ; also German steel and Iron saws, with steel breasts, which will be ready for the next crop —and which they will warrant, in point of workmanship, rna ttcrials and performance, equal if not superior to any ■ever made in Georgia. All orders punctually attended to, and Gins sent to any part of the Stare on reasonable •terms. Planteis washing to purchase will do well to tgive us a call. They have tilso in their employment a first rate Black smith, who will attend to any kind of Iron work which may be offered them, either front town or eountre cus tomers. A. D. &, I. F. BROWN. Macon, February 17 17nc NEW SPRING GOODS. F,O. C. McNEILL is now receiving at his stand / in Messrs. Rea & Cotton’s fire-proof buildings, 'Commerce Row, his Spring and Summer supplies of Pancyand Staple DRY-GOODS. Among wh eli will be found some desirable selections, adapted to the pre sent, and approaching seasons. Purchasers are invited to call and examine for themselves. Aritd K • 2.6 if npilE subscriber is now prepared to cvertor all kinds " of House, sign and Ornamental Painting, at his Shop, Mulberrv-street, opoosite the Post-Office, and one door below the Central Rail-Road Bank. Orders, either in the city or country, thankfully n *ci ved and promptly attended'to. T iWxvtbry 10 1C .1 CARD. TTY OCT. WM. J. ANDERSON informs the public f Jrcy that he has located himself in Macon, and will at I tend strictly to practice of his profession in the city,, and eom.t y adjoining Macon. His office will be found-irivi r the Darien Bank, and he will be found at night at Mr. Thomas King’s. April 11 2Stf A .Situation is fcVanted BY a vonng man of moral habits, in some respect able business in this city. As employment is his object, a situation in any respectable occupa'ion will bes acceptable. Address I,” at the office of ti* South- j cm Post. April 21 £<sp DANCING SCHOOL. 335 N. MOUNT would respecffully announce to the JUth. ladies and gentlemen of Macon, and vacinity, that hi? Second Quarter will commence on Tuesday, *he 2th in«tanf, at the Central Hotel. Days of Tuition, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 4 o’clock, in the af ernoon, fur Ladies, and at half-past 7 in the eve ning, for GentlcmcA. Terms —$10 for 24 lessons. April 21 26tf LAW NOTICE. S. M. STRONG AND P. C. PENDLETON TTAYING formed a co-partnership in the practice of : kl the Law, will attend the several Courts of the I Flint Circuit, and those of Twiggs and Wilkerson, of j the Oi hmulgee. 55” Office in the west end of Cow- | les’ brick building, Commerce-Row. March 31 23 j NOTICE. kITUTE undersigned having purchased of Mr. Geo. P. _tL WAn non, his entire Stock of GOODS, and hav- j ing removed to the Store formerly occupied hv Hum- | pliries & Moore, where he may be found, and happy to | wait on those who may favor him with a call. He is j now receiving a fresh supply of Dry Goods and Groce ries, all of which will be sold low for cash. April 14 25cf C. VAUGHAN. O. I?. LOOMIS, Portrait Painter, ESPECTFULLY invites the people of Macon, * L and its vicinity, to call at his room, over Messrs. Rea & Cotton's, Commerce-Row, and examine his specimens and judge of their merit for themselves. — Unless his Likenesses are satisfactory no person is ex pected to receive them. February 24 17tf Central Eai!-Road and Ilankinsr.Cofiferany, > Savannah, 3lurm 3(| 1833 $ INSTALMENT. 7\TOTICE is hereby given that an instalment of Ten Dollars per share on the Capital Stock of this in stitution is required to be paid in, at the Company’s Banking House in Savannah, on or before the 13th of June next. Stockholders at, and in the neighborhood of Macon, can make payment at the Branch in that citv. ' R. R. CUYLER, Cashier. April 7 G. C. McNIELL TS now receiving, at the store in Messrs. Rea & Cot ton’s Fire Proof buildings, Commerce-Row, an ex tensive and carefully selected Stock of Fancy and Sta ple Dry Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, &c. Among other things will he found, Silks, Satins and Satin Reps, French and Grodenap Merinos ; French and English, Swiss and Scotch worked and i embroidered Capes and Collars of various styles; Mus ins, Lawns, Linncns, Dinners, Carpetings, Prints, Ho isery, Shawls, Bonnetts, Veils, &,c., with other articles usually kept in a Dry Goods Store —all of which will be sold on good terms. | December 9 7 ICE IK* SJL miiE citizens of Macon, and vicinity, are informed A that Ice can be had at all times for Families, by ! application at the Bar of the Central Hotel for tickets.— I No Spirituous Liquors of any description will be kept lat the Ice House. Persons from a distance may obtain it in lanre quantifies by application either at the Cen tral Hotel, or at the Ice House. 55* ICE-CREAMS will be kept at all times at the Ice House, for the accommodation of Ladies and Gen tlemen. The place will be conveniently fitted up for pleasure and retirement. 55" The Ice House in Macon, will be kept open from 9A. until half-past 12; from 2P. M., until 5. P. R. WARD. JAMES LEWIS April 11 ■ Georgia Insurance anil Tiust Company. j CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS —ALL PAID IN. I THUS company continues to insure dwelling houses. h stores merchandise, cotton in ware-houses, and urniture, against loss bv tire —and takes inlandand ma rine risks on terms as favorable>as other responsible in stitutions. Claims for losses are sett'ed with promptness and liberality. Apply to C. DAY, Agent. December 9 NEW ESTABLISHMENT, Opposite the new Presbyterian Church, and ncM door ft A■ D- J- F. Brown's. milE subscriber having permanently located himsell 0 in Macon, tenders his services to the citizens i the Coach Painting and Trimming Business, and respectfully solicits the patronage of a generous public. He pledges himself that all orders entrusted to him will be executed svith despatch in a workmanlike manner, and on the most reasonable terms. From his l 0 „,r experience, and known abilities, he confidently bones to please all who mavfnvor him with their pat ronage. lie will also attend to all orders in the UP HOLSTERING LINE-* such as trimming Sofas, Easv Chairs, decorating Houses either in ancient or modern stvle, &e. . . He hopes from unremitted attention to business to i merit a share of that patronage which has been so lib I ““"r a "'“' lcJ 10 ° ,hcrc ' F. H. MRRILLOS. ! Apriljfl ___ - r, P HARTFORD VI R E INSU RAN C E CO3!P AN Y , HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, Incorporated in 1310 with a Capital of $150,000, and power to increase the strlrte to $250,000. FgS3HI& long established Institution has for more than j[ a quarter of a century, transacted its extensive I business'on the most just and liberal principles—paving i its losses with the most honorable promptness; and the : present: Board of Directors pledge themselves in this par- S tieu'lnr, fully to maintain the high reputation of the Company. ’ It insures oil the most favorable terms, ev erv description of property against loss and damage by Fire, but takes no marine risks. Application for Insurance may be made either per sonallv, or by letter, to its Agent in this eitv: and ail renewals for risks now running by this Company on ' u- nrr'v in this citv, mav be made hv application to i Vma: ' WM. B. JOIItfSTON, Aflent. > Mjccr, April 21, 1533 *'j MACON, (Ga.) SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1838. POETRY. From the Edinburgh Scotsman. TO TIIE To thee an orison of love In silence let my spirit breathed I see ten thousand worlds above — I tread on one little world beneath, One little world upholding me Within the blue immensity! Fair moon ! I wonder w hat thou art! Yet haply ’twere a grief to know; For, wert .hou different to my heart, I might not idolize thee so : Far purer joys than knowledge brings. Are mine in my imaginings. While musing thus, w ith upturn’d eye, I fancy thee a thousand things— Queen-Regent of the midnight sky, Or cherub fair, with silver wings! A goddess come the world to bless — A weanq watchful shepherdess! And, oh ! thou pure and lovely orb! Hfe>w sweet it is to dream of thee! Till dreaming all our thoughts absorb In visions of eternity;— And earthly things we cherish’d most, Are all in holy transport lost. At other altars I have knelt, And own’d the charm of woman’s eye; But the fond hearts with love that melt, Too oft are doom’d with grief to sigh.— How changed, alas ! are me and mine— llow altered ei'&y face hut ttfiit? Take all my love! —While thus IJgaze, A holy peace thy beams impart; As if thy soft and hallow’d rays Were shining on my yery heart— Subduing every harsher sense To love and pure benevolence. For myriad ages thou hast been A wanderer through the fields of space; And yet on every varied scene Thou look’st with still a youthful face. All beauteous scenes thou niovest among, For ever fair, for ever young. How oft upon the hills afar, Whene the Chaldean shepherd stood, In worship of each little star That lit the azure solitude, Hast thou, loved Queen! the livelong night, Reposed thy calm religious light! And o’er the Alpine moFhtairf;top% Have thy pale beams like-spiri.® walk’d; Yet pausing on the gentler slopes, As in a trance of wonder lock’d At the huge pinnacles on high, Upraised in silent majesty! Thence ’mid the ruins of old Rome, Vince honor’d by a mighty race; ■But now the parent and the home Os men degenerate and base— Thou wander’st with an earnest gaze, As in a dream of other days. And, oh! how r many a mounter’s siglis, llow many a pensive poet’s dreams, llow many a lover’s rhapsodies, Have been indulged beneath thy beams! Thou makestthy light religion all, Anti the earth one w'ide confessional. E’en now, thy soft and soothing ray Through many a little lattice steals ; Where lovelorn maiden pines away— While he —thecause of all she feels-*- Has ceased to feel a pang for her, But roves a wayward wanderer. And where the bitter fountain flows From eyes that seek the veil of night j How like an angel’s visit shows The gush of thy celestial light! And, while the mourner sighs to thee. Thy looks, how full of sympathy ! O, gentle goddess ! not a sound Within thy calm dominion breaks; And yet, though afi'is hush’d around, Methinks the very silence speaks, And breaths to thee, fond listening one? A deep but voiceless orison. I gaze—and from these mortal eyes, My soul, the while in holy trance, Upsoars like incense to the skies, Pervading all the blue expanse; As if it loathed this prison clay, And plumed its wings to flee away. But fare thee well! and while again I shape my thoughts to daily themes. And join the rivalry of men, For phantoms idle as their dreams; Still let remembrance turn to thee, Subduing a!! to pocsv! 1. T£. OvETjmiaiLirjrs ipansreasß* ON THE POETRY OF SCOTT, BYRON, AND WORDSWORTH, The three great master-spirits of our day, in the poetical world, are Scott, Wordsworth, und Byron. But there never were minds more unlike to each other than theirs are, either in original or conformation Or in the course of life. It is great and enduring glory to this age, to have produced three poets,—of perfect ly original genius,—unallied to each other, — drinking inspiration from fountains far apart, —who have built up superb structures of the imagination, of distinct orders of architecture, —and who may indeed be said to rule, each , by a legitimate sovereignty, over separate and : powerful provinces in ,the kingdom of Mind. Though greatly inferior in many things to his illustrious brethern, Scott is 'perhaps, after all, the most unequivocally original. We do not know of any model alter which the form of his principal poems has been moulded. They'bear no resemblance, and, we must al low, are far inferior to the heroic poems o( Greece; nor do they, though lie lias been called the Ariosto of the North, sriem to us to resemble, in any way whatever, any of the great poems of mojfcrn Italy, tie has given I a most intensely real representation of the liv ing spirit of the chivalrous age of his country, lie has not shrouded the figuftes or the char acters of his heroes in high peetical lustre, s© as to dazzle us by resplendent fictitious beings, shining through the scenes and events of a half-imaginary world. They are as much re al men in his poetry, as the carls ” of old are in our histories and annals. The in cidents, too, and events, are all wonderfully like those of real life; and when we add to | this, that all the most intent sting and impres sive superstitious and fancies of the times arc in his poetry incorporated and interwined with the ordinary tissue of mere human ex istence, we feel ourselves hurried from this our civilized age, back into the troubled bosom of semibarbarous life, and made keen partakers in all its impassioned and poetical credulities. His poems arc historical narrations, true in all things to the spirit of history, but everywhere overspread with those bright and breathing colors which only genius can bestow on reali ty ; and when it is recollected, that the times in which his scenes are laid and his heroes act were distinguished by many of the most ener gctic virtues that can grace or dignify the char acter of a free people, and marked by the op eration of great passions and important event*, every one must feel that the poetry of Walter Scott is, in the noblest sense of 4he word, na tional ; that it breathes upon us the bold and heroic spirit of perturbed but magnifjcient ages, and connects'us, in the midst of philo sophy, science, and refinement, with our tur bulent but high-irwnded ancestors, of whom we have no cause to be ashamed, whether looked on in‘the fields of war ’er in the halls of peace. Hc’is a true knight in all things, —free, courteous, and brave. War, as he describes it, is a noble game, a kingly pastime. He is the greatest of all war-pdets. His poetry Iniglit make a very coward fearless. In Mar mion, the battle ofFlodden agitates us with all the terror of a fatal overthrow. In the Lord of the Isles, we read of the field of Bannock burn with clenched hands and fiery spirits, as if the English were still our enemies, and we were victorious over their invading king. There is not so much of all this in any mod. ern poetry but his own ; and therefore it is that, independently of all his other manifold excellences, we glory in him as the great mod ern National Poet of Scotland, —in whom old i times revive,—whose poetry prevents history | from becoming that which, in times ohcxces sive refinement, it is often too apt to 'become j —-a dead letter, —and keeps the animating arid heroic spectacles of the past moving i brightly across our every-day world, and flash- ! ing out from them a kindling power over the actions and characters of our own age. Byron is in all respects the very apposite es, £cotL He never dreams of wholly giving up j his mind to the influence of the actions of men, ! cr the events of history. He lets the world i Toll on, and eyes its wide-weltering and to- i multuous waves—even the calamitous ship- j Wrecks that strew its darkness—'with a stern | and sometimes even a pitiless rnisanthrophy. ! ■| He cannot sympathise with the ordinary joys j or sorrows of humanity, even though intense { . and overpowering. They must live and work in intellect and by intellect, before they seem worthy of the sympathy of his impenetrable soul. His idea of man, in the abstract, is boundless and magnificent; hut of men, asin dividuals, he thinks with derision and contempt. Hence he is in one stanza asublime and moral ist, elevated and transported by the dignity of human nature; in the next a paltry satirist, sneering at his meanness. lieace he is un j willing to yield love or reverence to any thing ' that has yet iife ; for life seems to sink the lit • tie that is noble into the degred-tion of the I much that it vile. The deed, ttJ the dead o:;. y, are the objects'Of his reference or his love ; for death separates the dead from all connex ion, all intimacjMwith the living; and the mem ories ,of the great fir good alone live in the past, which is a'world of ashes. Byron looks back tt) the tombs .of those great men “that stand in assured rest; ” and gazing, as it were, ■bn the hones of a more gigantic race, his im agination then teems with corresponding births and fee holds converse with the mighty in lui » guage worthy to be heard by the spirits of the : mighty. It is in this contrast between his au guSt conceptions'of man, and his contemptiw ous opinion of men, that much of the almost : incomprehensible charm, and power, and cu chantment of his poetry exists. We feel our fedves alternately sunk and elevated, as if the hand of an invisible being had commanded o rer us. At one time we are aiittle lower than the angels ; .ip another, but lihlc higher than the worms. \Ve feel that our elevation and our disgrace arc alike the lot 'of our nature ; ; and hence tire poetry j6f Byron, as we before remarked, is read as dark, tut still a divine j relation. If Byron te altogether unlike Scott, Words worth is y<et more unlike Byron. NVith all the great and essentkd faculties of the poet, he possesses the calm mid self-commanding pow ers of tire philosopher. He looks over human liie with a steady and serene eye ; he listens with a fine ear “to the still sad music of hu manity. ” His faith is unshaken in the prev alence of virtue over vice, and of happiness o. ver misery; and in the existence of aheaven ly law operating on earth, and, in spite oftran sitorv defeats, always visibly triumphant in the grand field ot Irhman warfare. Hence he looks over the world of life, and man, with a sub lime benignity; and hence, delighting in all the gracious dispensations of God, his great mind can wholly deliver itself up to the love of a flower budding in the field, or of a child asleep in its cradle ; nor, in doing so, leelsthat poetry can lxr said to stoop or to descend, much less to be degraded, when she iinhodies, in words of music, the purest and most delight, ful fancies and aflections ofthe human heart- Tliis love of tlie na'ure to which he belongs, and which is in him the fruit of wisdom and ex perience, gives to all his poetry, a very pecu liar, a very endearing, and, at the sanxi time, a very lofiy character. Ilis poetry is little co lored by the artificial distinctions of society. In his delineations of passion or character, he is not so much guided by the varieties product ed by customs, institutions, professions, or i#odes of Jj!e, as by those great elementary laws of our nature which are unchangeable and the same; and therefore the pathos and the truth of his most felicitous poetry are more I profound than of any other, not unlike the j most touching and beautiful passages in the sacred page. The same spirit of love, and benignity, and etherial purity,-\vhich breathes over all his pictures of the virtues and the hap piness of man, pervades those too of external nature. Indeed, all the poets of the age,— and none can dispute that they must likewise be the best critics, —have given up to him the palm in that poetry Which commerces with the forms, and hues, and odors, and sounds, of the material -world. He has brightened the earth we inhabit to our eyes ; he has made it more musical to our ears; he has rendered it more creative to our imaginations. BlackwooJ’s Magazine, JBIB. AN ‘INDUSTRIOUS WIFE. Seme women arc never happy unless when they are scrubbing, sweeping, or otherwise toiling in household affairs, although they have servants to do all that they require. The lion. Henry Erskine’s first wife one of this .class, and her extifcme nervovs irritability and .‘eccentric wavs, it £iav be supposed, dvi not contribute greatly to Harry’s domestic happiness. One of her peculiarities consisted in not retiring to rest at the usual time. She w»uld frequently employ half the night in ex amining the wardrobes of t'ne family, to see that nothing was missing and that every thing was in its proper place. The following is told as a proof of her oddities. One morning, n bo'.it two or three <?’clock having been unsuc cessful in her search, she awoke Mr. Erskine from a sound sloep, by putting to him this im portant interrogatory: “Harry, lovie, where’s your while waistcoat ? ” A Wager Won. —A young woman laid a wager she would descend into a vault, in the middle of the night, and bring from thence a skull. The person who took the wager pre viously hid himself in the vault, and, as the girl seized a skull, cried in a hollow voice, “Leave me my head ! ” —” There it is, ” said the girl, throwing it down, and catching up another, “ Leave me my bend ! ” said the same voice. “ Nay, nav, ” said the heroic lass, “ you can not have two heads; ” 1,0 brought t!<e and won the wu^er. NO. 2?,