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Morning, at three dollars in advance, four dollars
after three months— two dollars for six months—
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{Cr Any person forwarding a ten dollar bill, (post
paid,) shall receive four copies, for one year, to be sent
to diftereut persons, as directed.
JKT - Letters, on business, either to the Publisher or
Editor, must come post paid to insure attention.
LEVI ECKLEY,
IS just receiving at his Store, Nos. 3 and 4 Commerce
How, an extensive variety of superior WINES,
LIQUORS, &.c.—viz :
12 pipes best Maderia
2 pipes Pale Sherry
2 pipes Brown Sherry
1 pipe Gold Sherry
4 pipes Tenenffe Uvmrs
2 pipes Sicily Ma leria VV m “
12 barrels L P. Madeira
10 barrels Muscat
2 barrels Liston
2 pipes Port
15 casks Por:«r
4 casks Scotch Ale
E esc Cotiiac Brandy, Holland Gin,
And Jamaica Rum-
WINES IN GLASS,
200 baskets Champnigne,
Also, a large quantity of Madeira, Sherry,
Port, Claret, &c. &x.
Johanesburg Hock, 1822.
TheMadena, Port, Sherry, and Champai me Wines
are all of my own importation, and warranted to be
pure
—also—
-8 cases Sardines
16 do Pine Apples and Lemons
6 uu Cat. Oil fs--.£ r
H do Citron and C mge Preserve*
13 do Guava and Ce.-rui ts Jell.es
2 chests York PouchongT ea
2 do Hyson do
1 ! boxes dry Dates, Citron dC
5) do fresh Raisins s
500) lbs soft shelled Almonds
300 t lbs Lump Sgar
1000 lbs Loaf do
15 oxes white Havana Sugar
6 do Maceronies
4 do Vermillion
50 do Sperm Candles
2do patent do
4 baskets Sweet Oil
25 dozen American Mustard
4 do French do
2000 ibs Cheese
500 ibs Sopesaga Cheese
4 cases Heron-paste
—alsc —
Ground Ginger, Pepper, All-spice,
Cloves, Cinnamon, ftlace and Nutmeg,
12 doz ii Blacking
30 do Shaker’s Brooms
50 boxes Common Soap
Also, Shaving, Fancy and Castile Soap
10 boxes Starch
50 dozen assorted Pickles
10 do Lobsters
10 and > Clatns
30 barrels Butter Crackers
10 do Pilot Bread
4 tierces lute Beans
—also—
-80,000 best Spanish )
5,000 best Principe I CIGARS.
2j,Ul!) best Florida )
Smoking and Che wing Tobacco.
Together with a large lot of tine cut and common
GLASS WARE, and a great var.ety ot other articles
usually kept in his line.
November 17 4tf
AC ON CLOTHING STOKE,
On Mulberry Street fronting Cotton Avenue.
H FITCII has constantly on hand, and is receiving
• at the above establishment from the manufacto
ry of L. Fitch & Cos. a large assortment of seasonable
clothing, consisting in part of
300 cloth dress and frock Coat 9 and Coatees.
100 cloth over Coate.
100 pilot cloth, duffle, green and red Blanket Coats.
30 gentlemen's goat’s hair & English camblet Cloaks.
500 pair cloth and cassimere Pants.
■IOO “ satinet Bcavertecn and cord Pants.
600 cloth, plain & fig’d Velvet, Valencia, woolen velvet
toilinef, bombazine, plain and tig’d satin Vests.
30 Ladies’ fig'd Marino, cloth and Circassian Cloaks,
Gentlemen’s cloth cloaks, camblet Wrappers.
75 satinet, Beavertecn and Jeans hunting coats.
10 doz. gingham and calico Shirts.
lOdoz. frill’d and pleted Linnen and cotton, Linnen
Bosom Shirts, red and white Flannel shirts. Nett
shirts and Drawers, Buckskin shirts.
'SO pair plain and twilled cotton Drawers, silk shirts,
Gloves, Hosiery, Stocks, Bosoms, Collars, Suspenders.
Handkerchiefs, Cravats, Purses, Russians Belts, Pis
tols and Money Belts, Silk and cotton Umbrellas.
ALSO,
25 cases Fur and silk lints, cloth Fur and Hair seel
caps, which will he sold very cheap.
150 suits coarse negro cloth, Sic. &e.
The above clothing is manufactured in the best man
ner ot good materials, and is offered at reduced prices for
cash
Gentlemen wishing their cloths made at the North,
will by leaving their names with me, have them made in
the best manner, and most fashionable style, and wor
rant«d to please. Dec. 2. 6 H. F
FOOD FOR TIIE MIND.
a Ji\f h\w :noo:K sso aii i
THE subscriber w ould respectfully inform his friends
and the community in general, that he has remov
ed from Milledgeville, and permanently located himself,
in this place, two doors South of the Washington Hall,
on Mulberry-street, at the stand formerly occupied by '
Win. 11. Burdsall, ann lately hv A. McArn, where he
intends carrying on the BOOK and FA SC Y ISVSI- i
NESS on the mostrea enable ternif ; and he tlatters
fiimse'f, if the peopleiw il call and » .amine his stock
ihat t| iy will be corn need that he can sell ns low ns
can ho bought at any house this side of New York.,
Among las stock may be found a generalassorinn nt
of La mi, Medical, Miscellaneous and School BOOKS;
GLOBES. MAPS and CHARTS; Mathematical In
struments ; Record and K'tiuk Hooks of nil kinds;
Paper, Ink, Quills, Inkstands ; Printing, Visiting and
Playing Cards ; Steel Pens, Fine Cutlery, Silver Pen
cils, Purses, Pocket-books, Bankcr’sCases, Ladies’
Work-boxos; Indies’and gentlomen’s Dressing Cases;
Dissected Maps, Spelling Puzzles, and a large assort
ment of TOYS for children ; Fancy and Dra wing Pa
per, Bristol Boards, Paints, Vanish, India Ink, Brush
es for Painting ; Gentlemen’s fine Hair, Shovin'., Nail,
Tooth, Whisker and Clothes Brushes ; Writing and
Travelling Desks; Wilson’s Manifold Letter Writer,
w ith the art of despatching 1,2, 3 or 4 letters with a sin
gle stroke of the pen—a very useful article for all busi
ness men.
Cologne, Florida, Lavender and Bay Waters ; JWilk
of Roses, Rouge ; Ladies’ Curls, Head Ornaments, &c
Violins, Accordians, Music Boxes; the most celebrated
MUSIC tor Pianos ; Card and Cigar Cases ; Tobacco
and Snuff Boxes, <frc &c.
£Cr All New P ib Rations will be received as
*°on as they are iss ;ed Ireni the press.
The above goods h tve al been selected fresh in New
York this fall and are of the best binding an mater
ials. A liberal dis viunt will be made to gentlemen
and teachers buying by the quantity, for their librari's
and schools. By a close application to business, and a
desire to ncomouate, I hope to merit a portion of the
patronage of this liberal community.
„ % * C. A. ELLS.
No ember 17 ly4
'XmIIC ALMANACS.
\ HFARTY laugh din be cheaply purchased hv
•x*. ci ling at C■ A. ELLS', two door, .South of the
Wash’ Eton Hall, and buying a supply of Almanacsfor
the vear 1839. They abound in amusing stories and
facetious wood cuts. Thp Peoples', the Comic, and i •
Davy Crockett —the titles ofthree different publican no.
each abound with whims, scraps and oddities—ad en
tures,exploits, sprees and scrapes, with ‘a mighty s nur'
chance' of fun too multifarious to mention ; besid s a
vast deal of information respecting the days of du
month, the changes of the weather, moon,&r bil
December 1
||§o#tfj£r %
BY P. C. PENDLETON.
VOL. 11.
to l he Macon Lyceum and Library
~ has keen R EMOVEn to the front Rooms
Sir'O*' over the Store of William B. Parker &
Cos., at the corner of Third and Mulberry-street, open to
j subscribers and their distant friends alone.
OAC All persons having in their possession anv of the
Periodicals or Newspapers lielonging to the Society are
requested to return them without delay. Their abstrac
tion, i* must be known to the subscribers, is a positive
violation of the ■ des of the Society, and to others an
open theft. AMBROSE BABER,
October 27 Its President.
TO RENT,
/t— *. THREE Fire-proof STORES, fronting on 3d
JnjH street; Three Fire-proof STORES, fronting
on Cherry-street.
They are large and commodious, and well calculated
for any kind of business, and will be fitted up, os to
shelving and counters, to suit tenants. Those fronting
on Third-street (directly opposite Messrs. Rea & Cot
ton’s, and J Cowles, Esqr.’s ranges) are now renriv for
occupancy, and possession immediately given. Those
on Cherry-street will be ready by the Ist of Octoher
next. Rent will be reasonable, and commence from
Ist of October. Apply to
DAVID RALSTON.
N. B. Several very airy ROOMS on the second floor
oi the above'buildings, suitable for Lawyers Offices,
..ill also be rented. D. R.
July 7 37tf
Dissolution.
riMIE firm of CAREY $ HOWLAND, in the
A Livery Stable Business, is dissolved this day by
mutual consent. C. L. Howland i° authorized to collect j
all debts due the concern, and will settle all demands
against the same- JAMES P. CAREY, \
October 10 52 C. L. HOWLAND. j
The LIVERY STALL E ECS IK ESS will becon
tmued by the subscriber, on the Court House square.
JAMES P. CAREY.
For Sale—A first-rate pair of well broke match
HORSES, inferior to none in the State.
October 20 52
Twenty Dollars Rewards.
STOLEN from the stable of Robert
A. Allen, 10 miles below Augusta, on
yp Sunday night last, a large Iron-grey
HORSE, about 15 or 16 hands high,
with a flaxen tail. It is probable that the horse has
[ been brought in this direction. Any person who .will
deliver the said horse to Mr. J. C. Edwards, in Macon,
will receive the above reward.
November 17 4tf
New Clothing Store.
n. W. MORRIS & CO
HAVING located themselves in the store formerly
occupied by VVm. tl Johnson &, Cos. (east side
Mulberry street,) are now opening an extensive assort
ment or
Ready-Made Clothing,
of the latest fashions, and of superior workmanship,
which will he SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH. Their
stock consists in part of the following, viz :
Super blue Cloth Cloaks,
Goat’s hair Camlet Wrappers,
Brown and mixed Cloth Overcoats,
Invisible Green do.
Mohairand Beaver Cloth do.
Pilot Cloth do.
Blanket Hunting Coats,
. Kentucky Jeans 1 rock and Dress Coats
Beaver Cloth Frock do.
Pilot Cloth Hunting Coats,
Super blue Cloth Frock and Dress Coats,
Do. black do. do. do. do,
Do invisible green and brown do.
350 Vests,comprisinga!lst> les and descriptions,
Victoria and Coronation ' Cassir re Pants,
Black and Blue Cassimere do,
Fancy Striped and Ribbed do.
Satinet and Kentucky Jeans do.
ALSO,
A general assortment of Stocks, Collars, Suspenders,
Gloves, Hoisery, Linen Shirts, Cotton do. with Linen
Bosoms,
A genera! assortment of Boots, Shoes and Pumps.
Super Silk and Cotton Umbrellas,
Leather Trunks and Carpet Bags,
Purchasers are invited to call and examine our stock.
October 27 3m 1
SCHOOL.
MR. TIERCE would inform the citizens of Macon,
and iis vicinity, that he has, agreeably with die
I consent and wisaesof the Trustees, taken charge of the
Macon Male Acadetnv, formerly under the charge of
Mr. Mclntyre. His School, which has just closed its
last annular term,w ill he resumed upon the first Monday
in January next. The scholastic year will consist of
ten months. There will he three classes formed, and
the studies peculiar to each class specified, as follow s :
! First Clas«, embraces Rending, Spelling, Writing.
1 Arithmetic, English Grammar, Modern Geography—
Tuition, per quarter, $6.
Second Class, Ancient and modern History, Butler’s
Ancient Geography, moral and Natural Philosophy,
conversations upon Chemistry and Ap'ronomy, Logic,
1 (Hedge.) Rhetorie (Blair,) and Algebra (Day’s,) to af
fected Quadratic Equation. Tuition, $7 perquarter.
! Third Class —Latin and Greek, in the following or
der : Roman History, in Latin. Veri Romm, Ciesnr (four
hooks,) Virgil, Bucelics, Georgies and Six Ac Neids,
Cicero’s select Orations, Ovid (eight hooks,) Annals of
Tacitus, Cicero de OlFeciis, Horace, whole ; Greek Rea
der ; four gospels of the Greek Testament; Ureca Mi -
nora, and Mejora, including Isocrates, Demosthenes,
Exccrpia ex Polvbia, Xenophon. Xenophon Anabases
and Homer (six Iliards). Tuition, $8 perquarter.
Translation will be required of members of the third
class—Composition and Declamation of all of a suitable
age. Rules for distribution, will be embodied in pam
phlet form. Parents desirous to he inforn ed as to the
miproveme >■ of their sons, can at any time attend
a private examination. Tho-e who di sign to patronise
are requested to send immediately at the commence
ment, upon the first Monday in January-
Dee. 8 [ Messenger & Telegraph—tw ice.] 7u
SANDS’ REMEDY
For salt Rheum, Ring Worm, Tetters, Scahl
Head, Barber's Itch , tyc.
rjIHIS remedy is a combination heretofore unknown !
-1- in the annals of medicine. It is the production of |
much experience, deep research, and great expense, I
and is ottered to the public in the fullest confidence of
its being an effectual, sate and speedy cure for the Salt
Rheum, and all other diseases of the skin, such as Tetter, j
Ring Worms, Scahl Head. Barber's or Jackson Itch, <j-c.!
These diseases are known to be the most obstinate of
anv to which the human svstem is subject, and can on-!
ly be thoroughly eradicated by perseverance in the right j
course of treatment, and by using the right medicine j
I Such a medicine has been discovered in this remedy, j
and we speak from our own knowledge and experience
when we say, that in forty-nine cases out of fifty it will
effect a permanent and rapid cure by attending to the
accompanying directions for use.
Sold by J. H. $ W. S. ELLIS,
Cotton-Avenue.
March 24 22
A CARD.
DOCT. WM. J. ANDERSON informs the public
that he has loomed himself in Macon, and w ill at
end strictly to practice of his profession in the city, and
country adjoining Macon.
His office is over the Darien Bank ; and, at night
he will be found at his room in the Washington //all
I April 14 25tf
MUSIC ! MUSIC ! !
J UST received, an assortment of Piano Music; Cra
mer’s Instructor fordo.; Hunter's do.; Burrows’
| j Primer do. ; Thorough Base, and Composition to do.,
| for sale by C. A. ELLS.
I 1 December IN 8
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, INTERNAL IDIPROVEOTENT. COMMERCE. AGRICULTURE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AMUSEMENT, Ac. Ac.
TERMS : THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE FOUR DOLLARS, AFTER THREE MONTHS.
MACON, (Ga.) SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1830.
GIRAFFE, OR CA.IIELOPARD.
This stupendous, majestic, and beautiful animal,
which is exquisitely depicted in the above masterly en
graving, by Mr. Adams ofNew York, is acknowledge!
to be the greatest wonder of the animal kingdom. It i;
not only the tallest of all known creatures, but the ra
rest and most singular character. It has been the grea'
desideratum of naturalists in all ages, and but few spe
cimens have been seen fur the last thousand years. I
was known to the Persians about two thousand years
ago, having been brought as a present to Dydaspcs, fa
ther of Darius 1., several centuries before the Christian
Era, by Abyssians, who brought it front the interior of
Africa, w here alone.it has ever been found.
After this w e hear no mure of it until it was exhibited
to ihe Romans, by Julius Catsar. F’rom that period, un
til within a few years, its existence has been deemed
fabulous, and the wonderful descriptions of it by Pliny,
Straflo, and others, though in nowise exceeding the
truth, tended to confirm the idea that it was a creation
of poetic fiction ; nor was this impression entirely remo
ved from the minds ofscientific naturalists until about
ten years ago, w hen two living specimens were presen
ted to the kings of England and France, by the late Dey
of Algiers. The specimen now exhibited to the Ameri
can people, is one of the two brought to ihis country by
Macomber, Welch & Cos., who have been employing
expeditions into the heart of Central Africa for five
years past, and at an immense expense to obtain them.
The average height of a full grown Giraffe, is 18 feet,
though some have been seen in their native wilds, up
wards of twenty feet. The length from the tip of the
tail to the head, is 15 feet; girth 10 feet; length of fore
legs, 6 feet 2 inches; tiind legs, 6 feet. The one here
exhibited, although but twenty-five months old, is 16
feet high, and should die climate prove favorable to its
health, it will yet grow several feet taller The Giraffe
is a gregarious, herbaceous, and ruminating quadruped,
entirely suigeneris in its structure and some of its hab
its. In its general contour, it unites several traits of the
ostrich, the antelope, the camel, and the stag. The
curve of its towering neck, w hich someiimes gives it a
height of more than twenty feet, ibrows the grace of the
swan into the disproportionate elongation of the ostrich.
Its delicately moulded head, greatly improved upon that
ot the camel, has muca of the shapely beauty of the an
telope, w hilst its rich and full black eye, fringed with
long silky lashes, rivals that of the famed gazelle. Its
fore legs are as admirably symmetrical as those of the
slag, and are as long from the cloven hoof to the joint of;
the shoulder, as the neck is from its base on the shoul- j
der to its junction with the head. The great depth of,
the shoulder, from the camel-like protuberance which !
crow ns it, to the joint of the clavicle, usually creates the'
impression that the fore legs of this quadruped, are most j
disproportionably long when compared with its hind
legs, especially as the line of its hack descends from the
neck to the tail, in an angle nearly equal to that present
ed by a stag thrown upon its haunches. In reality,
however, the fore and hind legs are within two inches of i
the same length.
The front aspect of this creature, presenting an orbic
ular, double convex chest, resting upon its long perp
dicular legs, and surmounted by a soaring neck, which
bears the creature's gentle and vivaciously expressive I
head, high above its wondering beholders, the privileged
occupant of a lofiier sphere of vision is unique and stri
king. Tins extraordinary elevation of the neck and
head, viewed in connection with the gigantic dimensions
of the whole frame, produces an impression of mighty
stature and agility combined, such as no other animal
can convey, and which invariably exceeds expectation.
The large dark spots which dapple its soft, slhek skin,
are not like those of the leopard, although it is indebted
to these for a moiety of its ancient and still common
name of Camelopard. Tkev are rather square and ir
regularly angular than circular, and are arranged with
much regulerity. Gn the head are two small blunt
horns, about six inches in length, tipt with stnatl tufts of
erect hair, and standing nearly paeallel to each othe .
It has another protuberance, besides these, midway be
tween them on the frontal bone, but not much elevated,
and two ofliers’on the occipal, on each side of the mane,
as if this remarkable creature wns originally designed
to have five horns. The ears are beautifully formed,
and the animal having an acute sense of hearing, turns
them w ith spirited flexibility in the direction of distant
NOTICE.
FI3HE subscribers having sold their entire stock of
A GOODS to Messrs. F’ort, Bond & Sinclair, feel
pleasure in recommending them to their former custo
mers and friends as worthy of their highest confidence,
and would respectfully solicit for them a continuance
of that kind and liberal patronage which has hitherto
been so generously extended to them ; and for which
they beg leave to tender their most grateful acknowl
edgements. Fo.{ TANARUS, il AILTON & CO.
July 21 3*Jtt
NOTICE
FJ3HE subscribers have sold their entire stock of
A Goods to Fort, Bond & 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 settfement,
and especially from those whose debts fell due on and
after the Ist of Januarv last.
FOR TANARUS, HAMILTON &. CO.
July 21 39tf
BLANKS, for sale at this office.
sounds. The male and female differ so little in appear
>nce from each other that they can scarcely be distin
guished at a distance of twenty paces. The prevailing
color of both, when young, is that of a brownish red,
which deepens with increased age. The female has
four teat«, bears one foal at a birth, and gestates a w hole
year.
Its ordinary food is the foliage of trees, and particu
larly tile leaves of a species of mimosa, called by the na
tives kamcel-doorn ; but it w ill eat those of the oak, the
briar, and nearly all others of an astringent flavor, shyw
ing a decided preference for those that are also aromat
ic. In its domesticated state, it will eat hay, clover, and
fine straw, like the horse ; but, in the absence of tts na
tural green food, it is found necessary to supply it occa
sionally with esculent roots and juicy fruits. Its longue
is vtry lung and black, coated w ith a hard impervious
skin, and possessing a taqcring contractibdity, admira
bly adapted to its gathering its favorite food from among
the involved and formidably prickly branches of the mi
mosa. Its ordinary speed is equal to that of a high bred
horse, and the length ofits majestic strides wheu in fuil
career, perhaps exceeds the powers of any other animal.
Although timid at the approach of men, it defends itself
with much valor against the attacks of inferior animals,
and even of die lion, kicking powerfully with its heels,
or rearing ou ihem and striking with its fore feet with
great rapidity and precision. Subh is the force of a
blow from its extremely long legs, that it has been known
to split the skull of a lion in pieces.
j In the freedom of its native plains, and when roving
! in those splendid herds in which it is chiefly seen, with
[ its unrestrained disposition and powers in full display,
j the Giraffe is an animal of transcendant magnificence
and iuterust. Exquisitely gified with the senses of
i sight, seen', and hearing, the approach of ihe hunter ne
iver fails to startle the browsing groups from their wood
j land retreats, and to send them, with their lion-like tails
! arched high upon their haunches, in full speed over the
j vast level plains in which they rove. Having acquired
1 a distance which commands a good circuit of view, the
I collected herd wheel round, lifting their lofty ngcks to
| the highest stretch, until some tall and patriarchal chief
i tain of the group, gives the sigual for farther retreat, or
fora dignified and more leisurely return to the clusters
; of trees on which they feed. If the hunter is bent uqon
pursuit, he will now breathe his steed awuile, knowing
that its speed and bottom will soon be taxed to the ut
most point. When prepared for the start, he squrs for-
I ward, w ith his lasso, or noosed rope, ready coiled in his
right hand for the evercise of his skid. He soon finds
that the immense strides of his noble game are leaviug
.him far behind, and he has recourse to the straiagem
which his experience has taught him is indispensable
jto his success. In common with all other wild and tim
id animals, when pursued, the Giruffee direct their
course to the windward. The hunter, aware of this,
turn his horse three or four points from the line of their
course, as if intending to pass ihem far ahead; and 1
thus; whilst they keep their eye upon him ns the pursued
rather than ihe pursuer, they insensibly approach him—
the diagonal line of his course converging to them ; and
he comes into the midst of the herd, notwithstanding
their superior speed, because they have to run a distance
equal to about o- e-third of a circle more than iheir wi
iey foe has to perform in the same time. If the hunter
has well husbanded the strength of his horse, he now
dashes toward some particular Giraffe—always select
ing smallest—which he hopes to capture; ahd
throwing the noose of his lasso over its head, instantly
leaps from his horse, before the Giraffe has run out the
length of the long coil which he holds loosely in his
hand. The first full tension of ihe rope, tightens the
noose roond the neck; every struggle increases the suf
focating pressure, and the captive falls back upon, its
haupches and reels to the ground. The hunter, still
keeping the rope moderately strained, approaches the
exhausted animal, leaps astride its head, and using its
long neck as a lever for the control of its body, firmly
holds the creature down until the Hutientot achlcr .rider,
-who has perchance been thrown out in the chase, comes
up with other cords to hind the captive for its destina
tion. But this operation is less easily completed than
contemplated. Bursting every restraint and springing
from the ground, the gallant prisoner, thoqgh a mere
C« BRUNO,
Professor of Music and Tuner of Pianos,
HAS arrived in this city with a handsome assort
ment of Pianos, Mush', Violins, Flutes', FUigolets,
Violin Bows, Strings, Aczoidiuns, and a variety oj Fan
cy Articles.
All the Pianos arc of superior workmanship, and will
be warranted and kept in tune one year.
All orders will be thankfully received and promptly
attended to, at the Music Store next door to J. H. Old
ershaw's Carriage and furniture Ware-House.
December 15 . 81
PAINTING.
'|NHE subscriber is now prepared to execute all kinds
* of House, Sion, and Fancy Paintinu, Gildino,
Glazing, and Paper-Hanoinq. House- Painting will
be done by the yard, p wild, or day. Orders, either in
■he city or country, thankfully received and promptly
attended to, at No. 21, Mulberry-street, opposite the
Post-Office. D. T. REA
sept 18
< on.. * - *.'* AC a' ■••• St ' - f
C. R. IIANLEITER, PRINTER.
foul, but a few months rill often become furious in
defence of its freedom, t wing at the hunter with its
fore feet, and even pursuing him to the bush or tree be
hind which he usually retreat o , until the captive’s limbs
are entangled in multipled coils. A wagon is then
brought from the hunters’ encampment—often six or
seven hours journey distant —and water, welcome wa
ter, not often to be fuund on the open and arid plains,
s brought to assuage the thirst of man and beast—a
thirst; of which those who have not hunted the swift
Giraffe, in the merciless glare of a torrid sun, can form
but a slight idea.
As soon as the young Giraffes are brought into any
settlement or encampment where a supply of milk can
be obtained to wean them, large pits, eight or ten feet
deep, are dug to place them in, as they would be likely
to injure themselves by springing about in wooden
buildings. Here they are fed with milk,juicy roots,
fruits and esculent branches of trees for several months,
and are taught to eat such other food as can perhaps be
procured on their journey to their ultimate destination.
In this way they are taught to eat out of the hand of their
keepers, and out of baskets tied to the roof of the covered
wagons, to which they are to be fastened on theirfuture
march, and in which they arc to be carried if unable to
walk.
When the Giraffes are sufficiently domesticated and
trained to unusual food in the manner above stated, the
expedition which has captured them, prepare to return
to their home. For this purpose the wagons are re
! paired, the oxen yoked, and the horses anil cords placed
under their respective conductors. Before crossing
those immense arid plains which sometimes afford no
water in several days journey, skins are filled with water
.which is husbanded with scrupulous economy as the
greatest treasure the earth can there afford. Such
j Giraffes as are so far domesticated as to follow the
wagons, are fastened to them by a halter round the
i head and a basket or box of leaves or roots is fixed to
! the covering of the wagon, at a convenient height for
the animal to feed. Other wagons follow in the train
with the baggage of the party ; and in this way passing
through many perils, are frequently impeded by the
avarice or hostility of innumerable savage tribes who
often thus for the first time behold the face of a white
man, the expedition perform their toilsome and danger
ousjourney toward the Cape of Good Hope.
This Giraffe was captured, with others, by Mr. John
Clayton, Agent of Macomber. Welch & Cos. the pro
prietors, in the Great Kaliharri Desert of South Africa,
in lat. 25 30 S. and lon. 25 E. In the course of these
journeys, extending nearly to the tropic of Capricorn,
and far deeper into the unexplored regions of Central
i Africa than any other civilized traveller had ever pene
, trated, Mr. Clayton captured many Giraffes ; but it was
j not until his expedition in 1835 and '6, that he succeeded
|in bringing any of them alive to Cape Town. Os eleven
I 1 which he caught on this occasion, seven died in the
course of his return, in consequences of bruises incurred
. in their struggles, and.the long deprivation of water and
I milk, which, during a journey of 1200 miles could only
|be obtained at stages far distant from each other. Os
j l he four which he brought to the Cape, one died from an
; abscess, and another from an injury received in putting
|it on board the vessel for exportation. The two survi
j vors arrived in this country from the Cape on the 7th of
■ June, 1833, in the barque Prudent, after a voyage of
fifty-one days, and when landed they had cost the
i proprietors upwards of $30,000. The one here exhibited
.is a female, and is twenty-five months old. She is a
; very fine specimen for her age. Being a native of a
j very warm climate, which has no extreme variations of
j temperature, it will .be necessary to remove her
|to the most Southern States of the Union before
i the heat of summer becomes materially diminish
j ed and so sensitive are they all to atmospheric changes,
I 'hut their location must be regulated by the progress of
i the seasons. They are the only Giraffes that have ever
j been brought into any civilized country by the enter
prise of individual citizens, and there are but two king
! doms of Europe which can boast of possessing any
livingspecimen. The intelligence and national pride of
the American people will doubtless appreciate ar and re
munerate the adventurous undertaking.
Monroe Rail-Roa 1 and Banking Cos. )
Macon, Dec. 2fl, 1333. J
IT iB ordered by the Board that Books of subscription
be opened at this Bank, on Wednesday, the 16th of
January next, and be kept open three days, for the sub
scribing for thirty-four hundred shares of capital stock,
whereupon. Otic Hundred Dollars per share will be re
quired on subscribing and when taken, said stockhob
deers will lie on an equal footing in everv respect as to
the Bank and Road, with the original stockholders, from
Macon to Forsyth.
A true extract from the minutes.
FSTER SOLOMON, Cashier.
December 23 lOp
Ocmnlgee Bank nt th" of floor -ia, 1
Macon, 7ttc December, 133-t. $
KEfSOI.VRn.T i. . i Instalme-:’ of Tun percent
' um on tin < - instill
and die sane is her requ. i-d '> be paid at the Riei,-
inglluu-e in mis city on nr 1m tore F> lay, 15th Febru
ary next. Extract trom the minutes.
J. A. WHITE, Asa’i Cashier.
Da»»«bar 4 a*
POETRY.
my native Home.
We find the following beautiful and spirited apostro
phe to the South, in the “ American Museum,” written
by Alexander B. Meek, Eeq., of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Land of the South! —imperial land!
How proud thy mountains rise;
How sweet thy sceneon every hand:
How fair thy covering skies!
But not for this,—oh, net for thee,
I love thy fields to roam;
Thou has a dearer spell to me.
Thou art my native home!
Thy rivers roll their liquid wealth,
Unequalled to the sea ;
Thy hills and valleys bloom with health,
And green with vendure be !
But not for thy proud ocean stream*.
Not for thine azure doom ;
Sweet, sunny South!—l cling to thee;
Thou art my native borne!
Tve stood beneath Italia’s clime.
Beloved of tale and song;
On Helvyn’s hills, proud and sublime.
Where nature’s wonders throng;
By Tempe’s classic sunlit streams.
Where Gods, of old, did roam ;
But ne’er have found so fair a land
As thou my native home !
| And thou hast prouder glories too,
Than nature ever gave;
Peace sheds o'er thee, her genial dew,
And freedoms pinions wave ;
Fair science flings her pearls around,
Religion lifts her dome,
These, these endear thee, to my heart;
My own, loved native home !
And “ heaven’s best gift to man" is thine,
God bless thy rosy girls !
Like sylvan flowers, they sweetly shine;
Their hearts are pure as pearls!
And grace and goodness circle them,
Where’er their footsteps roam,
How can I then, whilst loving them,
Not lovo my native home !
Land of the South! —imperial land !
Then here’s a health to thee.
Long ns thy mountain barrier stand,
May’st thou be blessed and free !
May dark dissension’s banner ne’er
Wave o’er thy fertile loam;
But should it come there’s one will die,
To save his native home!
NO. 12.
AIISCEL L ANY.
From the Baltimore Monument.
Our Female Poets. —We liave thought that
a slight biographical sketch of some of our
principal female poets, might not be unaccept
able lo our readers. There are many names
among them rendered so dear by association,
that we would lain know something more of
t lent than can be learned from their gushes of
song—fitful, but tender and sweet, and musical
as the voice of a loved and los* one heard in
dreams. A year or two since Mrs. Bale of
Boton, published a work called, “The Ladies’
Wreutli,” from which we extract the following
biographies, w hich will be read with interest by
all who have not perused the work just named.
We annex to each biography a specimen of
the writer’s poetic abilities.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney. —We have now
arrived at the part assigned to our American
Poetesses ; and it is with no small pleasure as
well as pride that we may begin our list with
a nainti deservedly honored and distinguished.
'Pile task of examining the productions and
judging the literary merit of liviug and cotem
porary writers, is a difficult and delicate one,
more especially when those writers are our
own country women, and esteemed correspon
dent or personal friends- But respecting the
talents and merits of Mrs. Sigourney there
will be no doubt or cavil. She has nobly won
her high place in the literature of our country.
Lydia Huntly was born in Norwich, Con
necticut. Site was the only child of her pa
rents, and reared with great tend -mess. Her
parentage was iu that happy mediocrity of for
tune which requires industry, yet encourages
hope—and the habite of order and dili ence,
to which she was sedulously trained by her
judicious mother, have, no doubt, been of ines
timable advantage to the poetess. She early
exhibited indications of genius—perhaps the
loneliness of her broiherless and sisterless lot
had an influence in substituting intellectual pur
suits for the common sports of childhood.—
We are by no means in favor of establishing
precocity ol intellect as the standard of real
genius ; yet it is certain that many distin
guished poisons have been marked in child
hood as extraordinary—the opening blossom
Was given forth the sweet odor which the rich
fruit, like that of the Mangostan, emcodies in
its delicious perfection. At eight years of age,
the little Lydia was a scribbler of rhymes—
like Pope lisping in numbers. Her first work
was published in 1815. It was a small vol
ume, entitled “ Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose
and Verse.” Before this period, however, she
had, fortnnately met with a judicious and most
generous pation. To Daniel Wadsworth,*
Fsq., of Hartford, belongs the tribute of praise
which is due for drawing such a mind from the
obscurity where it had remained “ afar from
tRe untasled sunbeam.” In 1819 Miss Hunt
ley was married to Charles Sigourney, a res
pectable merchant of Hartford, and a gentle
man of eultiuated taste and good literary at
tainments:—Erom that |ieriod Mrs. Sigourney
li.'-s devoted the leisure which the wife of a
man of wealth may always command, to liter,
ary pursuits. And her improvement has been
rapid and great. Her published works are
“ Traits of the Aborigines” a Poem, written in
blank verse: “Connecticut J orty Years
Since”—a prose volume, principally of tradi
tionary description : three*volumes of “ Po,
ems” —n volume of prose “ Sketches”—“ Let
ters to Young Ladies”—and a number of
small books for clxlnren. In all these works,
varied us they arc in style and subject one pur
pose is recognised as the governing motive—
the purpose of doing good, lit herptosewri
| tings, this zeal of heart is the gieat charm.—
1 She always describes nature with a lover’s feol
-1 mgs for its beauties, and with much delicacy
| ami isie ; still we think her tulent for descrip.