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by P. C. PENDLETON. | VOL I. THE jpossp 1« published in the city of Macon every Saturday Morning, at three dollars in advance, Fot'R dollars ml the end of the yrar—two dollars for six months) •and mailed ■ o country subscriliers hy the earliest mails, •enveloped by good s'rong wrappers, with legible direc tions. VT NTo subscription received for a less period than six months —and no paper discontinued, until all Arrears are paid. A Ivertisements will be inserted at the usual rates of advertising, with a reasonable deduction to yearly ad* Rdi ~iou«, Marriage and Obituary Notice* inserted free scy~ Any person forwarding a ten dollar bill, (post pa and,) shall receive four copies, for one year, to be sent to differeut persons, as directed. JCr letters, on business, eillier to the Publisher or Editor, must com e post paid to insure attention. A CARD. DOCT. ir.Vf. J. ANDERSON informs the public that he has located himself in Macon, and will at tend strictly to practice of his profession in the city, and country adjoinin ' M ,con. His office will l»e found over the D irien Bank, and he will be found at night at Mr. Thomas King's. April 11 25tf DR. L. A. IIOND HAS taken an Office on Cotton-Avenue, over the store of Fort, Hamilton &. Cos. wliere he can be f.und during the day; and at night, at hie residence, Vineville. lie will devote his time exclusively to his profession. June 9 33tf A Curd. DR. E. L. STROHECKER offers his services a* Surgeon and Physician to the inhabitants of Ma con and vicinitv. He will attend with promptness to anv calls from Town or Country, by night or day. Office on Commerce Row, over Levi Eckley’s store. At night, he will be found a' his room, iu the Centtal Hotel July 14 33tf NOTICE. POE dtVISBET will hereafter attend regularly the setting* of the Circuit Court U. S. for the District of Georgia. June 16 34 *,* The city papers will copy the above until Fall. LAW NOTICE. S. M. STRONG AND P. C. PENDLETON HAVING formed a co-partnership in 'lie practice of the Law, will attend the several Courts of the Flint Circuit, and those of Twiggs and Wilkerson, of the Ochmulgee. Office in the west end of Cow les’ brick building, Commerce-Row. March 31 23 NOTICE. BEING about to remove from the State, Mr. Chas. Collins is my Agent, fully authorized to repre sent me in any matter of business. JNO. RUTHERFORD. July 21 39n NOTICE. DURING our absence from the State, Mr. Thomas Harrold will act us our Attorney. REA A COTTON. July 21 39u DISSOLUTION. THE co-partnership heretofore existing under the firm of Robinson, Wright A Cos. is, by mutual consent, dissolved. The unliquidated claims against, and debts due, the concern will be settled hv J. H. Morgan. R. P. ROBINSON, U. L. WRIGHT. J. 11. MORGAN. July 7 37tf COPARTNERSHIP. ROBERT WHEELER, having associate! with him Mr. Calvin G. Wheeler, will continue business in future under the firm of • R. WHEELER A CO. June 2 32 f NOTICE THE subscribers having sold their entire stock of GOODS to Messrs. Fort, Bond A Sinclair, feel pleasure in recommending them to their farmer custo mers and friends as worthy of their highest confidence, and would respectfully solicit for them a continuance of that kind and liberal patronage w hich has hitherto been so generously extended to them; and for which thev beg leave to lender their most grateful acknowl edgements. FORT, HAMILTON A CO. July 21 39;f NOTICE. THE subscribers having purchased the entire S'ock „ of Fort, Hamilton A Cos., w ill continue the bus iness at the old stand, under the name and style of FORT, BOND & SINCLAIR, w here they will keep a constant supply of all articles belonging to the DRY GOODS business. They hope to realize a continuation of the liberal patronage which has been extended to their predecessors, and to give general satisfaction to all who may favor them with their custom. I. E. FORT, L. A BOND, E. SINCLAIR. July 21 39 f NOTICE. . THE subscribers have sold their entire stoek of • Goods to Fort, Bond A Sinclair, with a view of closing up the business of the concern with as little de lay as possible. They would therefore earnestly re quest from those indebted to them an earlv settlement; and especially from those whose debts fell due on and after the Ist of Januarv la«t. FORT, HAMILTON A CO. July 21 39;f NOTICE. THE Co-partnerships heretofore existing under the firm of Hamilton, Hayes A Com and Fort, Ham ilton A Cos. are this day dissolved. Either member of the late firms will lte authorized to receive any moneys due to either concern, and to sign the name ot either ■concern, for the purpose of making or receiving notes, ■either as principal or endorsers, for the purpose of clos ing the business of said concerns. __ * R. W. FORT, E- HAMILTON, J. R. HAYES, IRA E. FORT. ■July 21 __ 3Jtf S'at sr assart. THEtwihsrriber is now prepared to execute aii of llous-, Sign and Ornamental Painting, at hia Shop, Mulbcrrv-street, opposite the Post-Office, and one door below tfic Central Rail-Road Bank. Orders, either in the city or country, thankfully recei ved and promptly attended to. P ’ DANIEL T. REA. February 10 16 CITY LICENSES. PERSONS wishing any description of Licenses, can obtain the same nv applica'ion to me, at the Post- Office. JESSE L. OWEN, Clerk Council. January 27 14 DISSOLUTION. THE Copartnership heretofore existing between the subscribers under the firm of William Cooke A Cos. in the City of New York, and Cooke A Cowles, in Macon,i», by mutual eonaen', dissolved. The names of tie firm will be used in set'lemem of 'he business, by either party. WILLIAM COOKE, J. COWLES. Macon, June 9 33 Elgin’s Patent Bowie-Knife Pistols. •> rr ELGIN’S Patent Bowie-Knife Pistols, just ret*.' '•tl ved and for sale hv ROBINSON, WRIGHT A CC December 1 9 Devoted to Literature, Internal Improve Commerce, Agriculture, Foreign ttnd Domestic News, Amusement, &.c. POETRY. ! fom the Knickerbocker. fcft’tfY-AN EXfSACT. tor S a. r ercival. Much study is a weariness •. ao said The sage of sage', and the acMrt£ eye, The puffed cheek, the trembling frame, the hud Throbbing with thought, and torn with agony, Attesr hia truth t and yet we will obey The intellectual Numm, and will gaze In wondering awe upon if, and will pay Worship to its omnipotence ; the Maze Os mind is as a fount of fire, that upward plays. Aloft on snow-clad mountains, on whose breast Unspotted purity has ever lain ; The elouda of sense and passion cannot reel Upon its shadowy summit, nor can stain The whits veil which enwraps it, nor in vain Roll the whi’e floods of liquid heat t they melt The gathered stores of Eges ; to the plain They pour them down, in streams enkindling felt By every human heart, in myriad channels dealt. This is the electric spark sent down f om heaven, That woke to second life the mail ot clay; The torch was lit in ether, light was given, Which not all passion’s storms can sweep away; There is no closing to this once-ri.'cn days Tempests may darken but the sun will glow, Serene, uncloid. and, dazzling, at and its ray Through some small crevices will always flow, Nor leave in utter night the world that gropes below. MISCELLANEOUS^ From the Southern Li'erary Me-scnger. THE BACHELOR’S DEATHBED. Mr. Ethel waite sick ! exclaimed I, hastily*- leaving my bed. What is the matter? lsaw bim this afternoon, and he seemed unusually well. “I don’t krow,” said the little hoy, “bn* mammy heered him groanin’, and did’nt to go and see, ’cause he alwaxs looks so at her; so she sent me down to call you.’ Poor man ! poor man ! filled my sighs con t'nually, until I had completed my for braving the inclemency of the weather _ But let me not forget my readers arc unac— quninted with the individual so abrubtly intro duced to their notice. On a fine morning in the month of May, a, message came to one of our church elders that, a stranger wished to see him. • “Indeed!” said the good man, putting or* his best coat in some little confusion; lor c*_ stranger was a rare phenomenon in our village,, and those who did visit ns were of a class sel dom disposed to trouble the elders, except, in~ deed, to gull their simplicity with some proven bial “ notions.” But the trepidation of the k nd elder had nc» effect on his politeness. Down he went, to meet the unexpected visitant with as much* gravity as if lie had in mind the apostolic in junction. “ let your deacons be grave,” yet as cordiallv ns if lie felt himself equally enjoined to be “given to hospitality,” The stranger exhibited, in manners nntl dress, the model of a finished gentleman. He was, perhaps, fifty years old, and diessed it* black, with extreme neatness. A pair ol gold spectacles did not obscure the expression ol h x calm blue eye, and his gold-headed cane was grasped by a hand of most aristocratic propor tions. Bowing to the elder’s complimentary welcome, he observed, “ In passing your littlf village yesterday' I was so much pleased with its neatness and quiet, as to be t>Tripled to stop and examine it more closely. The result is, I have been taken with the idea of terminating in it the span of my existence. Will you be kind enough to inform me if there are any va cant pews in your church 1” “ We have several,” replied the pious elder* almost revering the devotion that made God’s worship the first care of its possessor—“we have several, but they are in a lonely, unfre quented part of the church, and may be disa greeable to you. But my own is too large for my family, and I need not speak of the plea sure it will afford me to have you nidus in filling it. The insignificance of the offer em boldens me to make it, and my gratification will be so great as to make your acceptance of it a personal favor. “Pardon me,” said the st ranger, his eyes glistening as if the voice of sympathy was an tin wantoned sound ; “ I appreciate your kind ness, but if the pews you speak of are lonely, they present fewer objects to withdraw us from our motives of entering them. Even the house of God is not sacred from the world, and if I have not begun to justify, I have ceased to con. demn their weakness, who attempt to exclude it from their hearts, by secluding from it their senses.” The good elder said not another word, but, !®’ting his hat, thev quietly walked towards the c .urch ; one, with his eves lifted in praise to heaven that he had at last found an Ararat fbr the ark of his wanderings, and the other, with his bent to the ground in humility, to think how fur his conceptions of devotion and charity were surpassed by those of his companion. Nothing occurred to disturb their meditations, until the rusty key grated in the lock of the old church door, when they passed down the aisle, to examine the pews. Just as the stranger had se’ected one for his use. he happened locast his eves back towards the pulpit, and was gt.irtled to observe beside it a marble slab, sa. cred to the memory of Dorcas Lindsay—who had been, indeed, « Dorcas to our village. Without stopping to read the < atalogim of her virtues, he rushed out. leaving the worthy elder, who had not observed the cause, almost petri fied with astonishment. Even the little boys snatched up their mar- MACON, (Gi- SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1838. b'es and run to hide themselves, as he brushed down the street, striking the ground violently w ;th his cane, and muttering, “ Now may Go' l forgive these worse than heathen, who defy him in his own temple with a graven image, and besides the elevated stand of his minister, ing servant, record the qualities of a human j !o!; that the virtues of the one, as recorded on the dead marble, miay he se* over against the pretensions of the other as proclaimed by h's living oracle-—and that idol a woman ! The world has long ago sickened me with its man-worship—‘but teaman- worship!—l had thought that left for the fools of France.” Reader, our devout godly stranger was not oilv a misogynist, but a monomaniac. 1 had been at the hotel, visiting a patient, and was leaving it, when he entered. There was that in his quivering lip, slightly frothed, and his hurried tone as he demanded his horse of the landlord, that not only excited my at tention, hut awakened my sympathy. I paused at the door, in anxiety to see more of one whore agitation was so unwonted. Scarcely had I been there a moment, when he came ot t and stood on the sidewalk Icfore me. Never had I seen our little villnge look so lovely. The long row of china-trccs on either side g'owed with an unwonted freshness. Tie balmy brenth of spring was laden with their perfume, and groups of children were sporting under their shade, like cherubs in the garden of innocence. The scene went to the heart of the singular being before me, and when he turned to countermand his order, it was the same bland expression in which he was first introduced to the reader. Since the harp of tbeshcplierd-king was removed to heaven, man has found no music like the laugh of childhood, to calm the whirlwinds ofthcsoul. Its silvery echoes break upon us amid the clouds of i so, and we almost fancy a voice above us, saying “Come up hither.” Its world is, indeed, a world above our own. Like the topmost of Babylon’s hanging gardens, it is canopied by heaven’s serenest blue. The dew falls upon it in all its freshness. The bright sunbeams dance on its folliage, and play upon the brows of its sylph-like inhabitants—lighting them to enjoyment, us to toil. Never is man so happy as when he can leave the world below him, join tlieir innocent revels, and fancy himself a denizen of the world in miniature. The most hardened must melt, the most profl.gate must be abashed, the proudest must be brought low, in the presence of those, of whom, “ such is the kingdom of heaven.” It is needless to recount how my acquain tance began with this singular individual ; how it was ripened into friendship, or from friend ship into the most deep-rooted affection. It is not difficult for sympathy to gain the attention of its object under any circumstances, and especially of one so alive to its yearnings as he of whom we are speaking. It was not imme diately that I ascertained either the existence or extent of his malady, but our subsequent intercourse displayed it to be in all its features. I might win a smile bv depicting the ludicrous extremes to which it often carried him ; but to his day his memory' rests upon me like a pall, and laughter at his expense would sound like the laughter of demons. A year had rolled by, during which my at tentions to our unfortunate invalid had been most qsiduous. 1 had seized every pretext of giving him such medicines ns would have a sympathetic influence on his mind, and easily persuaded him to a regular course of diet and exercise. Hitherto I had forborne any allu sion to the topic of his aversion, and been very careful to avoid, in his presence, the mention of even the feminine pronoun. But by this time I felt warranted to experiment on the success of my measures. Some kind ladies to whom I had mentioned the fact of his derangement, were in the habit of sending him, in my name, occasional pre sents of fruit. On the day after his reception, in this way, of a fine saucer of strawberries, while he was expressing his sense of my kind ness, I casually proposed a walk to the garden whence I had obtained them. He immediately assented, and thefollowing afternoon was fixed upon for our walk. This garden was delightfully situated in our suburbs, and belonged to the miller of our village. His wife, in their respective conces sions of li suttm cuiq we,” had received it as her special charge, and made its beauties her spe cial lioast. To this good lady I l>ent my steps, with the information of our intended visit. She expressed her gratification in the most lady like terms, both on account of our projiosed call, and that I had given her previous intima tion ; because she could thus see that none of the girls should inadvertently intrude upon us. Thanking her for her kindness, and observing that her suggestion in regard to the girls had anticipated my chief des'gnj n waiting upon her, I withdrew, feeling in my breast the alternations of hone and fear—' “Like light and shade upon a waiving field. Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal the sun." At the appointed time we started on our pro posed walk. He was a most interesting com panion, and well versed in general literature. ; Our way was so beguiled by his fine fund •! i anecdote and judicious remarks, that the beau | ties of the garden, broke upon us before wc j had imrgined our walk half completed. This, of all others, was the very thing 1 most desired, : and to prevent his mind from being suddenly j called off. I engaged him so deeply in the dis ; rujs’on pending between ns, that we were I delightfully seated in the shady arbor, before he i seemed even to notice that we had enteivd the garden. When he realized the little paradise ■ into which we had entered, and saw before us a table on which were placed some deliciou s rawbetr es, his admiration knew no hounds. \Vaile he was expressing his sense of the kind ness displayed hy the owner of the garden, I interrupted him by saying—Well, wc shah make hut a poor return, unless we pay some attention to the strawberries Iter bounty has prepared for lis. Afraid to give him an oppot - tu :ity of replying, or even speaking, I hastily .landed him tlie sugar and cream, which, tomy infinite delight, he to ik without remark. It is as impossible for me to describe, as it is to for get, the sensations of joy that almost convulsed me, when I observed that my allusion to ti e sex ofour hostess had fallen fiom me unnoticed. Afraid least my emotions should betray them selves, I hastened back to the topic that had occupied us on our entrance, and found him as ready to renew the discussion as himself. It is unnecessary to tax the reader’s patience by a detad of the daily visits we continued to the same place. Suffice it to say, that I con tinued to make casual mention of the sex, and was daily more and more pointed in my allu sions. I c mid observe no ch tngc in hi non these occasions ; he only seemed i.ot to notice my remarks. Yet it was a matter of delight te me that he would at all suffer them to be made in his presence, since, formerly, the least mention of the feminine gender of any species whatever, would produce u; on him a sensible expression of disgust—an allusion to a woman had never failed to call forth a torrent of in vective. I pursued my original plan with him for wools Every opportunity cf i t odu< n;the subject was embraced, and with mote and more satisfying results. At length I ventured, occasionally, to touch upon instances were women had proved signul blessings to the world. He would listen to n.e—and that was all. One afternoon tl c miller himself made or.e of our party in the little summer-house. Just as he was becoming warmly engaged in con versation, a servant came with a message ic quiring his personal attendance. He left us, expressing his sorrow that he was called away’ so soon, and lagging that wc would not let his departure affect our stay. Scarcely had he gone, when Mr. Ethel waite remarked, “How r trely do wc meet with such unaffected urbani ty in the lower walks of life.” Ah, said I, he owes every thing t > his wife. He was once a degraded sot, hut her affection and her prayers won him back to the paths of duty. She in turn owes every thing to otsc who has entailed a debt of gratitude upon us all. I mean Dorcas Lindsay, to whose worth the marble slab in our church is a feeble tribute, 1 do not like the practice of blazoning forth the virtues of the creature in the temples of the Creator, hut Miss Lindsay was of so pure and saintly a nature, that we could hardly reckon the atmosphere of earth her natural element. Fearing that the eulogium into which I had been drawn would make him impatient, I changed the tone of my discourse by remark ing—Her manner of coming among us was rather rnyrt r uns. We had long felt the want of a good female teacher, and the trustees of our female academy advertised so t'te purpose of obtaining one. Shortly after the publicat on of the adverti.-cnent, a letter was received from a lady stating that she had hut lately arrived in this conntv from London. On her voyage she had suffered ship wreck, and was now a stranger among strangers, and destitute. She had left England because she was friendless, and it had been her design to engage in teach ing from choice, even if shipwreck had rot made her anx : ons to do so, from necessity. The dchcacy of language in which the note was couch 'tl, and here and there a tear, which had blotted its pages, togetherwith the unfortu nate circumstance of the writer, won the sympathies of the trustees, and they sent for her immediately. It is thirty years since she came among us, hut I remember her first ap pearanee as if it was but yesterday. She had the brow of a queen and a full h'ack eye. that might once have been bright and flashing—hut sorrow had softened it. A gold chain around her neck was attached to a miniature almost concealed by her belt. This was the only earthly treasure the waves had left her. I had never been in the habit of looking at Mr. Ethclwaite, when conversing with him in this way, least he might suspect some design ; but a deep groan hastily arrested me, and turning towards him, I saw the very soul of agony depicted on his sea tures. The veins of his forehead stood out like cords, and were swelled almost to bursting. His eyes scemi and starring from their sockets—his mouth was slightly open, as if to drink in every word that fell from my lips. Shocked beyond the power ofspccch, I took his arm to lead him home. Hastily repulsing my attempt, he gasped out “ Dorcas Ad Lindsay ?—Go on. My dear sir, I have no more to sny. She lived among us like a saint, and died as she lived. Let me lead you home, you arc un well. “ The miniature.” She carried it with her toher d\ ing day, and by her own request I had it buried with her in her coffin. “ Was it this ?” grasping my arm, fixing his hair in a particular way that displayed a large scar, and glaring upon me with his eyes as if he would pierce my very soul. The miniature certainly had a scar upon the head, but it was of quite a young man. Do let me lend you home. “ Was it this ?” dashing hin hand into his pocket and out again, with a miniature which he held full before my eyes, his own glaring upon me os before. j C. R. IIANLEITEIt, PRINTER. What could I say ? The miniature in his hand was fellow to the one I had hurried with Dorcas Lindsay. He rightly interpreted my silence. Grad ually his muscles relaxed, till he sunk upon i ii seat with a deep groan. I took his arm, and lid him forth like a little child to my own louse. All that night, all the next day, and all tlie night following, he was in a raging fever. On the morning ofthe second day he toil into a sleep so hushed, that my wife, wno was stand ing with me by his bed side, gently felt his pulse. Tlie touch aroused him ■; -and opening his eves he grasped her hand, snying, in a sub- ’ dued vo*ee, “Dorcas, have you come back to • me?” H’s brain was still confuted, blit ins senses were gradually returning. When they were more fully restored, he recognized me, and spoke ofthe long, long dream hie nd had. From this time he gradually recovered. I fu'n have prevailed with him to continue his abode at my house, but no ; he had become attached to his little room, and expressed him self tnx Vis to die there. Taking ao nffe<t on nte leave of my wife, and venting his grat tude to her by n tear, he started, myself accompany ing him. for his solitary residence. “ You will show me her grave.” said he, ns he pressed my hand, at parting. 1 bowed as sent, and the next day complied with his re quest. After this, I visited him daily for three riavs, and always found him writing. Il was on the night of the third day, that the little boy came for me. as above With a mind full of solicitude, I reached his door. I could hear him pacing the room in violent agitation, and venting at intervals, groans that "nmc from his soul’s deepest chambers. I rapped, but received no answer. I rapped again, but still no answer was return ed. I mentioned my name ; still he continued walking to and fro. I repeated it. louder. The sound arrested him. lie suddenly un locked the door, and then went on pacing the room and groaning. I entered, and what a sight met my vision ! There was Mr. Ethcl ivaito. his coat soiled and muddy, his features worked up to the highest pitch of anguish, and ever and anon, venting those unearthly gro: r s that even now chill my blood. He held two miniatures, one in each hand, at which he alter nately gazed, after which he would groan out —“Too true! too true!” lie took no notice of my entrance, nor of my entreaties that he would lie down. At length he suddenly turned lo me and said vc hement’y. “ God has sent you here. T<so true ! too true ! This night I entered her grave and found tlie miniature that xvas to be, to her, my type, during my absence. She was too happy as she gazed on it, and the fiends of hell first envied, and then stole her joy. Oil!—rny— Go—’’ The rush of thought choked his utterance. He would have fallen, but I caught and bore him to the bed. His breath became harder and harder—his groans less and less audible— when suddenly raising himself, lie grasped my hand with a dying effort—said faintly, “You will—find—all—explained—in- —that—.” I followed with my eyes the motion of his hand, as he pointed to a small writing desk, and when I turned them on him again, lie was dead ! The following is A ntpi ta PH from a Lon don Magazine. A ne pi ta PHO na W. O! MAN wlios O—LD car the N. WA. RE. ' BENE AT HT, HISST. O, NELIES KA. TH Arin e Rave Hang’d, F. Ro ! mabus—y L. I. Feto Liflcssc Lay Bye aR—T. H. and c lav s. h. eg O ! T. herp Elf AND NO WS he, st, Urn’d, Toe, Art, hh Erselfv ewe Epi N G fri E. N. and slot Mead. VI, Scab, at Eyo, U. R. G. RIE F andd Rvy • ou Rey-EsF. O R Wbal Ta Vai—Lsa, Flo O! Dost EarS Whok Now S. BU, Tinar Un O! fye! Arsi n, s o mctall PIT chero R. Bro A D Panish enh ER SHO, Pma y bca g a I N! CURIOCS NOTION OF DISCOUNT. It chanced one gloomy day, in the month of December, that a good-humeurcd Irishman applied to a merchant to discount a bill of ex c a. ge for him at rather along, though not an unusual date; and the merchant having casually remarked that the bill had a great many days to run, “ That’s true,” replied the 1 ishman, “ but tlien, my honey, you don’t consider how short the days arc at this time of the year.” LOUD BROUGHAM AND THE UNITED STATES. “ I know,” said his Lordship in tl e House of Lords, on the 2d day of February last, “ tlie good sense which, generally speaking, prevails among the people of Ajaiericn, the sound policy which, for the most part, guides the councils of its government. Long may that policy continue ! Long may that great Union last! Its endurauce is of paramount import, nnee to the peace of the world, the host inter: ests of humanity, tb the general improx rrr.eiit of mtiikind.” NO. 41.