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THE
goujESiiEißxr
Is published in the city of Macon every Saturday
Morning, at three dollars in advance, rom dollar
after three months— two dollars for six months—
and mailed to country subscribers by the earliest mails
enveloped by good strong wrappers, with legible direc.
ttons. 93“ No subscription received for a less period
than six months—and no paper discontinued, until al
arrears are paid.
Advertisements not exceeding twelve lines will be in'
serted at $1 00 for the first insertion, and 50 cents for
each continuance—larger ones in proportion. Persons
wishing to advertise by the year must call at the office
and make an agreement to that effect. S3"Advertise
ments not limited when handed in, will be inserted till
forbid, and charged accordingly.
lE3" Any person forwarding a ten dollar bill, (post
paid,) shall receive four copies, for one year, to be sent
to differeut persons, as directed.
K3" letters, on business, either to the Publisher or
Editor, must comepost paid to insure attention.
FOOD FOR THE MIND,
A :r3D©l< SfOßi l
THE subscriber would 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
Wm. 11. Burdsall, ann lately by A. McArn, where he
intends carrying on the BOOK and FANCY BUSI
NESS on the mostreasonable terms ; anil he flatters
(tiniself, if the peopleiw II call and • tamine his stock
that ttay will be convnccd that he can sell as low as
can ba bought at any house this side of New York.,
Among his stock may he found a generalassortment
of Law, Medical, Miscellaneous and School BOOKS;
GLOBES, MACS and CIIA RTS; Mathematical In
struments , Record and Itlank Hooks of all kinds.
Paper, Ink, Quills, Inkstands ; Printing, Visiting anti
Playing Cards ; Steel Pens, Fine Cutlery, Silver Pen
cils, Purses, Pocket-books, Banker's Cases, Ladies’
Work-boxos ; ladies'and gentlemen's Dressing Cases;
Dissected Maps, Spelling Puzzles, and a large assort
ment of TOYS for children ; Fancy and Drawing Pa
per, Bristol Boards, Paints, Varnish, India Ink, Brush
es lor Paintin'; ; Gentlemen's fine //air, Shaving, Nail,
Tooth, Whisker and Clothes Brushes; Writing and
Travelling Desks; Wilson’s Manifold Letter Writer,
with 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 ; Milk
of Roses, Rouge ; Ladies’Curls, Head Ornaments, &c.
Violins, Accordians, Music Boxes; the most celebrated
MUSIC for Pianos; Card and Cigar Cases; Tobacco
and Snuff Boxes, <J-c &c.
03" All New Publications will be received as
soon as they are issued from the press.
1 he above goods have all been selected fresh in New
York this fall, and nrc of the best binding and mater
ials. A liberal discount will be made to gentlemen
and teachers buying by the quantity, for their libraries
anti schools. By a close application to business, and a
desire to acomodate, I hope to merit a portion of the
patronage of this liberal community.
M ~ C. A. ELLS.
November 17 » l v 4
PIVNOES,
CARRIAGES AND FURNITURE,
JUST received and for sale at reduced prices, by
JOHN H. OLDERSHAW.
April ___ 24tf
Fancy Soap, Candy, &c.
1 fWV DOZ. Fancy Soap—assorted
A v/vA 300 lbs Candy do
100 boxes and half boxes No. 1 Soap
40 do Sperm Candles
40 doz. Wine. Cherry, Madeira and Hock.
For sale by J. PHILLIPS.
January 19 I3tf
STILLS.
JUST received and for sale, a lot of Stills, from fifty
to one hundred and twenty gallons.
JAMES H. BISHOP & CO.
Feb 16 _ 17tf
NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES.
fCI \ BRLS. in prime order, just received per Ocmul-
OV ' gee Company's boat, and for sale by
REA & COTTON.
March 2 |«J
MORE NEW GOODS.
JUST RECEIVED at the NEW SHOE & HAT
STORE,
2 trunks gentlemen's Hoots, of superior quality
1 do fine Bootees,
1 do Shoes
6 cases mens and hoys Light Boots
200 pair Dancing Pumps
200 do Walking Pumps
100 do Youths Pumps
200 do Ladies French Slips
100 do .Misses do do
100 do Walking Shoes
100 do Boots
200 do Childrens Morocco ami Leather Bootees
Also, a large assortment of Mens and Boys Ca
and Kip Brogans
10 cases Negro Shoes of good quality
4 do .gentlemens fine Beaver Hats
4 do white Russia Hats
4 go youths White Hats
4 do youths Black Hits'
8 do fine .Moleskin Hats
30 do men and boys white & black Wool Hats
All of which will he sold very low for cash, wholesale
or retail. HEIDT, ALDRICH &. CO.
March 16 21
READY MADE CLOTHINgI
JUST received at my Auction Room, on consign
ment, a general assortment of READY MADE
CLOTIMNG, for Summer wear, consisting of Coats,
Pantaloons, Round Jackets, Vests. Shirts, &c. &c., all
of which will he sold low tor CASH. Livers of gen
teel and fashionable Clothing, at a reduced price, will
do well to call and examine for themselves.
C. L. HOWLAND.
N. B. The above floods will be sold at Private Sale
only.
March 23 22
PIANOS ! PIANOS ! !
JUST received and for sale, four elegant PIANO
” FORTES, manufactured expressly for the south
ern climate, and are warranted. The public are invi
ted to call and examine them.
, THOMAS WOOD.
December 8 7
Dr. Scttbltf t Oleltrated Eye Water for Iti
flamatioK and Weakness of the Eyes.
riHfEgreat advantages of this infalible remedy places
it lis a general appendage to families, and a con
stant Oadr-ma um to the traveller. This Eye Water is
prepared with the greatest care, and has never been
known to fail in effecting a speedy and safe restoration
I'f.thc diseased organs. It is useless to attach any cer
tificates by way of praise or recommendation. The
reputation and immense sale that has attended Dr.
Seudder’s Eye Water, is the fairest proof of its utility
and beneficial tendency ; it has been the means of
preserving sight to many of tire afflicted, from the help
less infant to the aged parent. Thousands of letters
have been received by Dr. S. within these few years,
containing* flattering remarks relative to this Eve' Wa
ter—and the cures effected by it, have been set forth as
wonderful beyond precedent. Dr. Scudderconfidently
recommends this Eye Water as a safe and valuable
remedy—and he trust that his experience as an Occu
list, to weigh against the gross impositions which are
daily practised on the public by advertisements of dif
ferent kinds of Eve Water, many of which are unsafe
U> use. Preparedly Dr. John Scudder, Occulist and
of Artificial Human Eyes. A supply of the a
fcove Eye Water, for sale by //. SHOTWELL.
Merchant* in the country supplied at the Pro
prietor's price. March 10 20
RANDS’ REMEDY’
For sail Rheum, Ring Worm, Tetters, Scald
Head, Barber's Itch, 4*c.
a MIIS remedy is a combination heretofore unknown
in the annals of medieine. It is the production of
much experience, deep research, and great excuse,
and is ottered to the pnliliu in the fullest confidence of
its being an effectual, sate and speedy cure for the Salt
/thrum, and all other diseases of ttie skin, such as Tellrr,
Ring I Verm*, Srubl Head. Harbor's nr Jackson Itch, 4 f c.
These disensos are known to tie the most obstinate of
any to winch the human system ia subject, and can on
ly bo thoroughly eradicated by perseverance in the right
course of treatment, and by using tlte right medicine
Hucn a medicine ha* been discovered in this remedy,
mid we speak from our own knowledge and experience
when we say, that in forty-nine on*** out of fifty it will
ellbet a permanent and rapid oufe by attending to the
accompanying directions for use.
RuU by /, //. ,)f IF. S. ECUS,
~ , Cotton-Avenue.
March ti gg
BY I*. C. PENDLETON.
VOL. 11.
HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL
FAINTING. GILDING. Ac.
THE subscriber, grateful for past favors in the above
line, begs leave most respectfully to return his
j most sincere thanks to the citizens of Macon and Vine
yille, and their vicinity, and lakes this opportunity to
inform them and the public generally, that he has as-
Sw?.,?! 1 , w , l,h hi "'’ in co-pannership, CHARLES L.
j SMI I 11, (late of Wall street, New York, a gentleman,
and second to none in his line of Painting in the Uni
ted States.) for the purpose of conducting the Painting
business in all its various departments.
THOMAS B. CLARKE,
The business, in future, will be conducted under the
firm and style of CLARKE & SMITH, No 1
Mulberry street, next door but one below William B.
1 arker & Cos., and directly opposite the Central Hotel,
i Ueh 2 15-ly
PAINTING.
r P r, E subscriber is now prepared to execute all kinds
r , of House, Sion, and Fancy Patntino, Gilding,
Glazing, and Paper-Hanging. House-Painting will
be done by the yard, pound, or day. Orders, either in
the city or country, thankfully received and promptly
attended to, at No. 21, Mulberry-street, opposite the
Post-Office. D. T. REA.
sept 18
DRESS MAKING AND MILLINERY.
\| RS.HANLEITER wishes to inform the Ladies
, o' Macon, and vicinity, that she has come to 1 hit
determination of pursuing the dress making business,
and flatters herself that, from a long experience, she will
give entire satisfaction to all who may think proper to
engage her services. She will endeavor to obtain
patterns of the latest Spring Fashions, and be better
prepared to suit those Ladies who may patronize her.
ft3“Her residence is on Third-street, in the house
formerly occupied by Mr. B. Trapp.
93" Mrs. SAGE will attend to the millinery business,
at the same house; and will Bleach and Press Bonnets j
at short notice.
January 19 13 C
LAW NOTICE.
riIHE undersigned w ill hereafter practice Law under
| A the firm and style of McDONALD, POWERS
& FRANKLIN, and will regularly attend the Courts
heretofore attended by McDonald & Powers. Office
over the Ocmulgee Bank.
c. j. McDonald,
A. P. POWERS,
Fch 2 15-ts L. FRANKLIN.
UNITED STATES BANK NOTES, laige bills
for sale by J. T. ROWLAND,
i Also, CHECKS on NEW YORK.
| March 16 21tf
CASTINGS, BLACKSMITHING, &c.
A LL kinds of CASTINGS, MILL INKS, GIJD
1-cA- GEONS, Ac , of Iron or Composition, cast to
I order, at short notice. Patterns will be furnished, if
[ necessary.
; All kinds of MACHINERY made or repaired.
1 93" The highest price will be given for Old Copper,
Brass, and Cast Iron.
A . D . & I. F. BROWN,
March 9 20tf Near the Baptist Church.
PLANING MACHINE.
PIAHE Subscribers respectfully inform the public that
A their PLANING MACHINE is now in full ope
ration, and that they are prepared to plane, tongue and
groove any thinkness, from j to 2 j inches, as well os
weather-boarding, and other plank, from 2 to 18 inch
es in width.
SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, Ac. made to order, at
the shortest notice. A. D. A I. F. BROWN,
March 9 20tf Near the Baptist Church.
Auction mid Commission Business.
HE undersigned has commenced a regular busi
• ness in the above line, and solicits the patronage
of the public. Refer to
Messrs. Rea A Cotton, Macon.
“ Scott A Morrell, New York.
“ Wm. Patterson A Cos., Savannah.
Mr. Charles Hartridge, “
“ Robert Collin's, Charleston.
Messrs. Farrar A Hayes,' “
Mr. G. McLaughlin, Augusta.
A. r. McLaughlin. j
N. B. Sales may be expected on WEDNESDAY
in each week, until further notice.
_Feb 16 17tf
NOTICE.
MTIIE Subscriber, from favorable repre
sentations, employed one Wm. Russell,
a stranger to him, to go to the Cherokee
“with important papers, he left about flic
middle of this month with a very large Black Marc and
a Sorrel Horse, one of which he was to have left at Ma
con, since which he has not been heard front. He is a
young man, apparently about 23 or 24 years of age,
nearly 6 feet high, says he was born in Baltimore,
though his conversation indicates that he is a foreigner.
A handsome reward wall be given to those who will en
able the subscriber to obtain nis property and bring the
thief to justice. A. SHOTWELL.
county, Jan. 22 ts-14
J. 11. & W. S. ELLIS, Druggists,
Cotton-Avenue, Macon, Georgia,
HAVE just received the following, which they ofler
for sale on accommodating terms :
Superior English ground Mustard, for table or Med
ical use
Carpenter’s Extract Liverworth
Do. Sarsaparilla Cububs and Capaiva
Do. Extract Pink Root
Do. do. Boneset
Do. Tonic Extract
Do. Remedy for Scalds, Burns, Ac.
Do. Disinfecting Liquid Chloride of Soda, for
sick room;, and keeping Meat untainted in hot weather.
Gallaghan’s Vegetable Fever and Ague Pills|
Superior Red Peruvian Bark
Oil Cantharidin, Oil Black Pepper
Stomach Tubes, Dentist’s Instruments
Croton Oil, Salaeratus, Pearlash^
Ground Spices, Starch
Indigo, best Spanish, Salt-petre
Salsoda, for washing, superior Apple Vinegarj
Best London Walnut Catsup
Sultana Raisins, for cooking.
Also, a general Stock of Fresh DRUGS, MEDI
CINES, Ac
September 23 4
Matches, Snufl, Ac. .
BECKWITH’S Pills, Brandreth’s Pills,
Evan’s Camomile Pills, for heart-burn, dyspepsia,
Toilet Powders, superior Soaps,
Loco-foco, Lucifer, and Friction Matches,
Black and blue writing Ink,
Snufl’of various kinds —for sale by
J. H. cf IF. s’. ELLIS, Cotton- Avcnne
GOLD INK,
A beautiful article for Artists, Schools, Private Fami
- V lies, Bankers. Merchants, &c. This Ink, when
written with, has die appearance of Gold. It can lie
used either with a quill, stall pen, or a fine hair brush.
Ladies will find it for Ornamental Painting, Visiting
Cards, Sec., to be superior to any similar article which
has ever been introduced to the notice of the public.—
For sale by J. 11. & W. S. ELLIS,
' tan. 26 14 By appointment.
NEW HOOKS.
JUST received, Capt. Kyd, or the Wizzard of the
Sea, by Ingraham, author of Lafitte, Burton, &c.
Annual of British Landscape Scenery.
Heath’s Book of Beauty, for 1839—tl to engravings
and binding is very exquisite. For sale at the Book
and Music Store of C. A. ELLS.
March SO 23_
('nr|M*nter’N Embrocation for Horses.
I NOR the cure of Swellings, Strains, Brumes, Unlls
- Stiffness of Tendour and Joints, fte. Sec.
Tills Embrocation is recommended to Furriers and
other* who wish a remedy for disease* alsiye mention
ed. For sale by J. U. & W S. ELLIS.
i Sepieml.vr 23 4tf
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, INTERNAL IWIPROVEIYIENT, COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AMUSEMENT, &c. Sic.
TERMS. THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE FOUR IKILLARS, AFTER THREE MONTHS.
MACON, (Ga.) SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1839.
BRIGADE OBDERS.
Head Quarters, Ist Btig. Bth Div. G. M. )
Macon, March 26, 1839. $
A election is hereby ordered to be held at the sev
„ , ' ra * el l? c,,on precincts within the limits of the Ist
Battalion of the 50th Regiment G. M. on the 20th day
\ for a Lieutenant Colonel to th 6 said Bat
tahon, vice John S. M. Baldwin, promoted.
Also ordered, that an election be held on the 27th of
April next, at the several election precincts-within the
limits ot the 2d Battalion of the 50ih Regiment G. M ,
tor a Major to said Battalion, vice William Wadsworth,
resigned. Each election with the superintendence and
in the manner prescribed by law. Two Captains in
each Battalion snail give twenty days public notice of
the time and place of holding said election.
Col. John S. iVI .Baldwin will select the Captains for
that cluty, and will renort the result of the election to
the brigadier General Ist Brigade.
T . J. BENNETT,
, p ~ , , , „ Cut,. Ist Brig. Bth Div. G. M.
To Col. John S. M. Baldwin,
Commanding 50th Regiment G. M.
Baldwin will also brevet two accomplished and
qualified citizens to command said Battalions during
the interim.
By order of ~ J. BENNETT
.. , Brig. Gen. Ist Brig. Bth Div. G. M.
March 30 . 23u
PIANO FORTES,
From Robert Nunns Clark's, and Geih q Walkers
Manufactories , at C. Bruno's Music Store,
In Macon, Georgia.
t BRUNO is constantly receiving front the said
* manufactories,superior Pianos, manufactured ex
pressly for his establishment, of various patterns of Rose
Wood and Mahogany, with the grand action, harp stop,
metallic plates, patent tuning pins, &c. &c., embracing
the latest fashion of furniture, with tablet and hollow
corniced fronts, veneered legs, and Grecian scrolls; all
of which is warranted to be made of such material and
so well seasoned, as to stand the test of every climate. I
A written guaranty entitles the person to exchange the i
instrument at any time within one year, if not sattsfac-;
tory, (if returned uninjured.)
Also, constantly receiving, new and fashionable Mu- 1
sic, Instruction Books, Guitars, V iolins, Flutes, Flngeo- !
letts, Ac. Guitar and Violin Strings, Ruled .Music Pa
per, Brass Instruments for Bands, such as Trombones,'
Bugles, Trumpets, &c.
April 6 2 ly j
. NOTICE—CENTRAL HOTEL.
QfMVv* T ?D U !! f mfe,f 1 , rst ( !«y of April next, the
t EN I UAL HOI EL will he conducted solely
by the subscriber. He would roepectfullv inform
the public that he has made additional preparations for (
accommodating those who may think proper to call on
him. Among other things, lie has provided a French 1
Cook, who has had long.experience in his business
», ™ J OHN WILLIAMS.
Macon, March 30 o3 u
ICE! ICE!!
IJ ECEIVED ami for sale a large supply of ICE,
M which call lie had at any lime from sun-rise till
nine at night, by applying at the store. A large Re
fngerutor will lie kept filled in the stnrr, ami delivered
in any quantities without a moments detention Price
eight cents per pound.
HARVEY SH<ITVVELL, Druggist.
■Opposite CentrnlHotel.
N- B. When wanted to go in the country, it will be
put up in the most careful manner.
April 6 24
ICE!
rpilE subscriber would respectfully inform the pul -
i mi at * ,e * las j ,iSt received a supply of Ice.
and will Ik; ready to deliver it on the Ist dav of April
next. It can be had at all hours, hy application at the
Central Hotel. Orders from the countrv care folly pack
«**• , „ JOHN WILLIAMS.
March 30 • 2 3u
J. L. STEPHENS, SURGEON DENTIST.
I ATE of Columbus, Georgia. Office at the Cen
tral Hotel, Macon, Georgia.
If I meet with encouragement in my profession, I
shall expect to make Macon niv permanent residence.
April 6 21u
A SITUATION
IS WANTED by a gentleman, (an old resident of
A Macon) in any respectable business, wherin lie tan
he ot service. For information, address E. at the of
fice of the “ Southern Post.”
Apnl 6 _ 24tf
I Just Dropt in to Se,c Y’ou AH !
"JUST RECEIVED, United States Screamer, Shin
i ' ,one AlJey, Rousing Nigger Roarer, containing all
de Nigger Songs eber war writ; Dream Books; a large
assortment of Plays, in pamphlet form, suitable for
Thespian Societies, for sale at the Book Store of
, „ C. A. ELLS.
April G 24
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE.
\\riLL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next;
* * before the Court House door, in the City of Ma
con, the undivided half of Cily Lot No. 7, Square 68,
corner of Walnut and Spring streets, containing j acre, i
belonging to the estate of Willis T. Sage, deceased;]
and sold under an order of the Honorable the Inferior
Court of Bibb county, when setting for ordinary pur
poses. Terms on the day.
MARY SAGE, Administratrix.
March 30 23u
VICTORIA PENS.
1R Ladies, by Warren ; Gillott’s Victoria, for Gen-
A t lent- n ; India Rubber Spring Pens; Three Slit
Pens, anew and very superior article, and every other
kind of Pens manufactured. A large assortment of
Writing Paper, very cheap, for sale at the Book and
Music Stoic of C. A. ELLS.
April 6 24
JUST RECEIY ED,
riJOWNS’ NEW SPELLING BOOKS, and a
large assortment of School Books, at wholesale,
at Charleston prices, by C. A. ELLS
April 6- 24
JUST RECEIVED,
4 LARGE assortment of NEWMAN’S COLORS
“ its Cakes, Pencils, Drawing Paper. Fine Albums,
Porcelain Slates, Visiting Cards, Superior Penknives,
Portfolios, &c., for sale by C. A. ELLS.
April 6 21
HARTFORD
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY’,
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT,
Incorporated in 1810 with a Capital of $1 50,000, and
jnneer to increase the same to $250,000.
riMIIS long established Institution bus for more tlinn
-E- a quarter of a century, transacted its extensive
business otiibe most just and liberal principles—paving
it* losses with the most honorable promptness; and the
present Beard of Directors pledge themselves in this par
ticular, fully to maintain the high reputation of the
Company. It insures on the most favorable term*, ev,
cry description of property against loss and damage by
Fire, but takes no marine risks.
Applies ion for Insurance may be made either per
sonally, < by letter, to it* Agent in this city: ami nil
renewal* r risks now running by this Conq>iin/»n
prnpi rly i tills city, lnay Im made by apnhentinu to
tin Agent. U’.V 11. JO//NSTON, Art ti'
Uueon, *pni*l. 18.18 26tt
MISCELLANY.
■ - ■ .. * . -
THE FIRST AND LAST BIRTH-DAY.
[continued.]
The humble fortune of which Major Coven
try was possessed at his death, consisted of
bank stock, and his widow empowered a Mr.
Lionel Cranlield to receive the dividends for
her as they fell due. Mr. Cranlield was a
money-getter; one of those men in whose eyes
every thing has a money value, or none at all.
Money was his god ; nor was it ever the less
acceptable, because a little dirty, from the
channels through which it flowed. What he
would not do to get it, no one had ever dis
covered ; what he would all who knew him
could tell. The sordid taint- ran through
every action of his life. But what then ? lie
paid his debts, so he was duly accounted an
upright man in his own circle. He had a
son, who inherited in absolute perfection all
his money-value notions of men and things,
having been taught from his cradle to com
prehend only one description of rewards and
punishments in this life, the reward of sixpence
if he did well, the punishment of losing it if he
did ill. This son, when of a proper age, he
established in the same line of business as
himself; and as he had hitherto acted for Mrs.
Coventry without receiving the usual com
mission, he thought he might as well transfer
the agency to him, calculating that Mrs. Cov.
entry could hardly expect a young beginner
to forego his profits. He was right; Mrs.
Coventry cheerfully consented to pay Mr.
William Cranfield, what she had never wished
to withhold from Mr. Lionel Cranfield, and
the latter thus got rid of a gratuitous trust,
while he ‘ put money into the purse’ of his
son. Little contrivances of this sort he de
lighted in, where without broadly trading in
dupery, he could practically overreach.
Unfortunately for Mrs. Coventry, Mr. Wil
liam Cranfield, besides having all the virtues
of his father, had a few vices to boot, of Ins
own special rearing. At the head of these
was the love of gambling. Need the result be
told? He lost largely. He grasped at what
ever was within his reach to cover his losses.
An act of forgery gave him possession of every
shilling belonging to Mrs. Coventry; be ab
sconded in time to escape the gallows, and she
was ruined!
The utter destitution to which she was thus
suddenly reduced, crushed the feeble remnant
of that spirit which bad so long buffeted with
adversity. In his first terror, Mr. Cranfield
(who had a soil of animal affection for his
offspring) professed his eagerness to indemnify
her loss, as it had been sustained in conse
quence ofher compliance with his own wishes.
But when he found that his son was beyond
danger, that no halier in England was long
enough to reach him, and that paying the
money would benefit neither him nor himself,
he offered her the loan of fifty pounds, with
an assurance that he would nevet ‘trouble
her,’ though, ‘ for mere form’s sake, he would
take a bill of sale of'•ter furniture.’ Necessity
must accept, not stipulate, conditions. Mrs.
Coventry, scarcely knowing w hat she did, and
anxious only to meet present exigencies,
thankfully closed with what, in the humility
of her indigence, she deemed the almost
generous proposal of Mr. Cranfield. It was
sufficient tor her remaining wants in this world!
Three weeks after the dreadful shock, she
breathed her last.
Mr. C ran field kept Ins word. He did not
4 trouble’ the wretched sufferer. Nay, the day
after her death, he employed a broker to value
the furniture; and upon his estimate, gave
orders, at his own cost, for a decent funeral.
When this was over, he completed the sale;
paid himself, (with a month’s interest;) paid
the undertaker, (with a discount of five per
cent gave the poor orphan a ginca for pocket
money ; and calculated, that the balance would
nearly liquidate the last half year’s school-bill
for his youngest daughter.
Charles Coventry was only fouiteen when
his mother died. He felt his loss, and lamen
ted it, with more sorrow than is incident to
that age ; for home and mother were equiva
lent terms in his mind, and in losing one, he
had lost both. All his thoughts, all his affec
tions, all his wants, his pleasures, his hopes,
had hitherto moved within that little circle, and
revolved round the being that was its centre.
There was a dreary void, a blank, a valued
thing, gone for ever, which his young heart
felt; which every moment recalled; which
in sleep lay heavy upon his spirit in dim
dreams; which oppressed him when he awoke;
hut which no reason he was yet master of
could make level to his comprehension. A
deep sense of his forlorn state, of his having
no human creature whom he could call sister,
brother, or kinsman, possessed him; audit
rose to a feeling of despair almost, when lie
entered the rooms which wereonce his mother's
saw them stripped of their furniture, and looked
upon t! e hare walls, which seemed to hid hitn
depart, for there was his home no more!
But whither should he go ? Young as he
was, the meal which pity set before him was
bitter on his lips. The bed whereon he lay
was not the place of rest his own had been.
The neighbors were kind, most kind ; tears
would often come into his eyes at what they
did tor him ; but there was a feeling swelling
at his heart which warned him he could not
he, am! ho that which his departed mother’s
prophetic fears had pictured, a ' thing for chari
ty's cold smiles.’ Kven at this early age, n
naughty, impetuous spirit of independence wits
: kindling, and silently becoming the monitor of
Ills actions. •is there no wotk that a /«<</ cun
jj C. R. HANLEITER, PRINTER.
do, to get his bread V was the question he put
one day, half angrily, half proudly, to tw o or
three benevolent persons, whom he heard con
suiting about the best means of disposin'' 1 of
him.
Mr. Cranfield was applied to on his behalf.
i I will provide for him, for the present,’ said he;
‘send him to me.
Charles was delighted, and went with alacri
ty. Mr. Cranfield was upon the point of en
gaging with a copying clerk at a guinea and
a half per week, when he was s|>oken to about
young Coventry. It immediately occurred to
that thrifty philanthropist, he could confer two
benefits at once—one upon Charles, and ano
ther upon himself. Instead of giving him a
guinea and a half per week, he only gave
him board and lodging, his cgst-of clothes, and
five shillings a month to spend or hoard, ashe
might choose ; save that two out of the five
were to be deducted for washing, which would
be ‘ done at home,’ at much /ess expense to
Charles, and at no expense to his master.
In the drudgery, the servile drudgery, of Mr.
Cranfield, (for such he made it,) the noble
nnnded youth remained three years. There
was nothing his generous master could put
him to, however menial or fatiguing, at which
he repined; and there was nothing too
fatiguing, or too slavish, with which to task
him. Indeed, the more labour he gave, \hc
betler he was satisfied, for then lie knew
he earned his food, clothes, and lodging—
a reflection precious to his proud nature.
‘ I have a right to them,’ he would often men
tally exclaim ; and that sense of right would
have given to a mouly crust and a drop of wa
ter, a flavor which not the delicacies of a
palace could have had for him, without it. In
the midst of all his toil, too, he still found
time, while others slept, to lay in a store of
various knowledge; devoting his thrce-shillings
a-month, not to buying books, which would
have poorly fed his eager appetite for them,
but to subscribing, for their perusal at a large
circulating library in tlie neighborhood.
It was to be supposed, that a mind iike his,
as its energies ripened, would find the vassa
lage of Mr. Crnnficld's service insufferably
irksome; and the more so, because of an in.
creasing contempt for his sordid character.
He longed for a wider and a better sphere of
action ; but in all his aspirations, he traced as|
its boundary the sturdy principle, that he would
have his worth , and no more. ‘A million!
should not content me,’ he would sometimes
cry, when medidating on tlie future, * if some-
I thing within told me my price was greater ;
but, by the same rule, less than the least that
ever satisfied a human being, shall suffice me,
if so it ought to be.’
About this time, the second son of Mr.
Cranfield left school; and as his father con
sidered that he must find him in board and
lodging, clothes and washing, it would be an
economical arrangement to put him in the
place of Charles. The advantages were so
obvious, that hesitation was out of the ques
tion.
* I shall not want you, Mr. Coventry, after
next Friday,’ was all the notification he
thought it necessary to give one Monday
morning.
‘ Very well, sir,’ was Charles’ reply, as he
coutinued the writing he was upon, while the
curl of his lip spoke more scorp than his tongue
could have uttered.
‘ Well say nothing about the washing for
this month,’ observed Mr. Cranfield, when j
Friday night came, and he put half-a-crown
into his hand.
‘ It wants a fortnight of the month sir,’ re
plied Charles calmly, ns he laid the half crown
upon the table. ‘ Take your shilling, and give
me my eightenpence. To that I have a
right.’
Mr. Cranfield was struck with admiration.
He took hack the half crown, and gave him
eightenpence. ‘ You are an honorable young |
man,’said he, shaking him warmly by the |
hand. ‘Your heart is in the tight place;
you’ll be a shining character yet. I trust I
know how to appreciate such delicacy of feel
ing. You have my best wishes for your wel
fare, go where you may. God bless you, and
good night.’
| With these words the door of Mr. Cranfield
was closed upon him; &with the eighteenpence
in a small bundle under his arm,
; and ins ‘ heart in the right place,’ as the worthy
Mr. Cranfield observes), did Charles Coventry
! turn from it to ‘ go where he might.’
It was summer time; ihe weather sultry -in
the extreme ; tho moon shining brightly ; and
without knowing Nvhither lie bent his steps,
{without indeed thinking where he was going,
for his mind was a chaos of tumultuous
thoughts, he found himself in the midst of
fields. He followed the path that lay*before,
him. It brought him into a narrow lane, with
lofty trees on each side, which interlaced their
branches at the top, forming a verdant canopy
too thick for the moon to penetrate. He
paused a moment to consider whether he should
go to the right Or left. He had no motive lor
choice, hut turned mechanically to the right.
He soon perceived he was ascending a some
what steep hill, and when he gained the sum
mit, seated himself on the trunk of a tree to
take breath.
And now was the first moment he began to
think. All, till now, hud been a rapid st’icces
sion of dreams; one unbroken series of
visionary abstractions, which lad passed
through his mind. Ile burst into n loud laugh ;
clapped his hands, and chuckled like an over
joyed* child.
* Why this is brave!’ Iteiexcluimed : ‘this is
u golden beginning of file’s journey—fit oas
tlie air that blows upon me, and likelt unseen
of man ; unheeded by him, whence I come, or
whither I go. By Jupiter! hut this is (he way
to learn philosophy. Oh I there is no master
of them all can teach it half so feelingly as
this.’ taking the eightenpence from his pocket,
and looking at it as it lay in the palm of his
Imno, ‘ Let me ask counsel of you, my
friends,’ he continued with a laugh, 4 Will
you buy trie a bed to-night ? Aye, say ye, if
I will go without a dinner to-morrow.' But
when to-morrow conics, there will still be a
to-morrow, and another, and another, to tlie
end of time; while thy ending will be with the
to-morrow’s sun-down—and then’
lle paused suddenly ; he examined closely
the money lie held—l.e chinked one piece
against the other—and then burst into a louder
and longer fit oflaughter.
‘ Does the devil hoodwink his own7’ he cried.
• Yea, doth he ; for only by such a trick could
this have happened. I said right wlien I called
it u gulden beginning. It is a guinea I look
upon ; twenty-one shillings and sixpence;
and so, twenty-times a more precious philoso
phy than I took it to be. Now, had a man
who knew the honest value of a guinea been
self-cheated thus, I would retread - every step
I have taken to do him right; but it would be
a sin lo steal from so poor a wretch, in virtue,
as is he who was my master, the blessings he
will purchas ; from every want of mine which
his involuntary bounty shall relieve. So to
your hiding place again—and now, God sjieed
me !’
It was very true, that Mr. Cranfield had
given a gtuneu, instead of a shilling. It is no
less true, that when lie discovered his mistake,
he set the matter right, by withdrawing his
subscription for one year from a lying-in chari
ty, to which he belonged, for the benefit of
having his wife’s poor relations delivered at
their own houses.
The rhapsody of Charles was no sooner
finished, than he sprung from his seat and
pursued his walk. The morbid excitement of
liis feelings had subsided ; his over
no longer teemed with confused thoughts and
images; the violence of the paroxysm was
passed, into which he had been thrown by the
staggering novelty of his situation— a night
wanderer, w ithout a home, without a friend ;
without the means to procure the first; almost
without tli i wish to posses the second. From
the moment when Mr. Cranfield’s Spartan
annunciation rung in his astonished ears — ‘ I
shall not want you after next Friday’— he had
determined that that ‘ next Friday’ should be
the hegiraofhis life—his point of departure
in the world’s voyage : —and though lie knew
he was to set sail without chart or compass,
a sort of reckless fascination, suited to his
romantic spirit, seemed to dwell upon his re
solve. ‘lean live where there arc men to
serve.’ was his frequent exclamation during tlie
interval ; and with this feeling at its climax,
he turned his back upon the door of Mr. Cran
fiel ’.
But there is a difference, which only ex
perience discovers, between romantic inten
tions, and romantic performances. When
we revel in the former, we are like the simple
country wench, who*reckoned up all the things
she would buy with the produce ofher pail of
milk ; and when we begin the latter, we very
often give the untoward, kick which scatters
our anticipated delights in the dust. Our
hero was already approximating towards such
a catastrophe. Tired, drowsy, with an incon.
venient appetite, (all of them mere common
propensities of vulgar mortality,) tlie political
qualities of his situation were fast losing their
hold upon his imagination. There was no
picturesque bank of violets upotf which lie
could repose ; no woodbine bower, the haunt
of Dryads or of fairies, with a crystal stream
purling through it, which invited him to seek
silvan slumbers in its cool recess ; no cottage
chimney, sending up its wreaths of pale-blue
smoke, (the fragrant vapour of turf or green
wood bough,) between two aged trees,
‘ Where Corydon and Thyrsis met,
Are at their savoury dinner set,
Os herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.’
NO. 25.
lu sliort, he was wandering somewhere on
the confines of Middlesex and Berkshire,
than which the deserts of Arabia arc hardly
less productive for the romantic in adventure,
and he would fain have had his supper and
gone to bed, than which there are no two con.
ditions of existence less conducive to the ro
mantic in feeling.
Again he seated himself by the road-side to
rest, and sleep came over hitn. It was broad
day ere he awoke. He found he had not been
as he imagined himself in his soliloquy, on the
top of the hill, 4 unseen of man,* or 4 unheeded’
by him. His Imt and bundle were gone.
4 They would have taken my money too, I
warrant, if it had not been lor the fear of dis
turbing me.’
There was this fear, and therefore due pre
caution had been employed to do it without
disturbing him. There was neither guinea
nor sixpense in his pocket! The then pos
sessor of hotli, as well as of hits hat and bun
dle, was a Scotch pedlar ; no thief by pro
fession ; one who would not go out of his way
to pick a pocket; but one who had no virtue
in his soul strong enough to resist picking up
whatever came in his way.
Charles was confounded ! The color fled
front his cheek, his lip quivered, and tears of
vexation, rather than of griefffetood in his eyes.
Ho who was light-hearted and not without
hope, with a fancied eighteenpence only, as
his sum of worldly wealth, felt, for.the moment
as if lie had lost an inheritance, because now
he had not a farthing ; so little capable uro
we of putting tfieir true value upon eiflier tlie
frowns or smiles of fortune. Despondency,
however, was as foreign to his character, as it
generally is to his tithe of life. Asa matter
of choice, he would rather have had hi* hot,
his wardrobe, and his money ; as a mutter of
necessity, lie submitted to tlie privation with a
very good grace, after lie had done what older
and wiser heads are apt to do in like cases,
adopted the prudent resolution of never run
ning the Mime risk again. Itut could behave
[seen himself, lie would, at least have con*
tossed ilieiu was now something wild, roman
tic, and pictU capieenough in his appcurunci).
,(.'hnrlos Coventry was tall for his years, per
haps about five feet nine; slim, graceful in Ins
] carriage, and his figure u perlicl model us
symmetry ; his hair, raven black, bunging in
1 11 refuse natural curls over I lis forehead ; his.