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with tiio ex torn al portions of the system; the certain effects o r air, cheerfulness, temperance, and of exercise, uninterrupted by any species of unnatural con straint. Southern Telescope. rr< v,? \n r g? \* na7\ t? ™ a W W w;L W■> m W WH J For the Southern Poet. (3.) THE SCRIBBLER. OLD BACH BLOKS. “ Good lord! on what a slender thread hangs man without a wife.” Old Bachelors ! ye musty spe cimens of humanity—nave at ye ! “ hammer and tongs.” Here is a mittimus lor you—a ticket for ad mission into IMuto’s regions, tho’ it »s a matter of doubt whether M ans. Charon will give you a pas sage across til Styx or not : for my own part 1 believe that all the wandering, “ unshrined” restless sp*nts which haunt church-yards, old houses and lonely spots, are notiiing but the unquiet souls of Old Bachelors. The ghost of a married man would never he out so late of nights—“cavorting” a bout like a Jackalantern ! “ G ve me a sheet of paper broad as Congress Hall, A pen of cane reed split wit h a broad axe, Oceans of ink as black as adder’s gall, And vig’rous nerves as touirh as cobbler’s wax,” That L may write how much I hate a rank old bachelor. One that you can “nose” at a half mile ol a windy morning, in chivalry a bachelor was the low est order, and so as a member of the human family is he one of the lowest, meanest grades ; a fungus upon society, a scare-crow to vir tue and good feeling ; a lump of concentrated selfishness; a su p 'Mounted -oo ; a m m without a soui—what is meaner than an old bach dor : With no one to care for nun, remind him of his forties, and wanderings from the paths of rcctitud", or to solace him in the hour ot trouble. His whole life is gen Tally nude up of riot and debaucheries. The opinion of the Uetter part of mankind has always been against this class o*‘ unfortunate, voluntary outcasts. From the creation of Eve in Para dise, when the Creator himself declared “ It is not good that man should be alone,” unto the pre sent time, Anno Domini, &c. the ear h, notwithstanding their exis tence, might become depopulate, or what is worse, be tilled up with a tartherless, illegitimate race of vice and folly. The every-diy life and habits of one of these an imals is description enough : just peep fora moment into his dwel ling place—some lone chamber waere these twenty years the spi ders have been weaving hangings, in pity, to shut out from daylight and the human ken the dingy, blackened walls. If you are a person of sensitive feelings at all, hold your breath, for your sto mach's sake, as you step over the threshold ; the atmosphere is re dolent of smells; the floor perhaps is covered with dirt, tobacco spit tle, cigar ends and old papers.— It is furnished with a crazy table, ornamented with decks of cards, W'li 1 bottles, foul tumblers, and liquid traces of the last nights’ oarouse ; scattered around in ad- mirable confusion arc some half a dozen treacherous seats, called chairs, broken backed and limp ing with hard usage. A matted nest of “ straw, feathers and foul ticking” graces one corner of this den, the covering to which is like Joseph’s coat, torn and of many colors; under this bed, and in each corner, is an eternity of mouldy hoots, toeless and topless, solelss shoes and shoeless soles, old hats, cast-off clothing, news papers and pamphlets, broken bottles and fragments of stockings musty with wear. If there is a shell, desk or “ roosting place” in the room, it is generally adorn ed with vials of all sizes, and from snowy white to sooty in co lour and condiment, packages of patent medicines, for “ the heart ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,” la belled in blue, brown and yellow, handsomely vairegated, with pill boxes, soda powders, bear’s grease, cologne and different cos metical humbugs. His time is spent each night, until late, in card or bacchannalian parties, and he lies a-bed in consequence until nine or ten in the morning, then, arising heavy and dispirited, his clothes are in sad disorder— his shirts minus the bottoms, his stocking out at the heels, his h indkerchtefs unhemmed, and this or that garment ruined for want of “ a stitch, in time,” as poor Richard used to say. He is in a continual st :tt of feverish excitement, ferment and pi rplexi ty ; the sight of a woman, or glance of every “ stranger lady,” causes him to tremble for his per sonal appearance ; something is always wrong, a wrinkle in ins unmentionables, a “ bad fit” of a hoot, a wry lock of hair—if any— the fever of the brain consequent upon a s'ate of celibacy causeth one to lose his hair much sooner than a married foul spot upon his vesture or linen may give him the bines for a whole day, someone has used his best “ Jean Maria Farina,” stolen his Havanas, used his clothes brush in tiie hair, or hid his favorite brandy bottle, and becomes crab bed and sour as a crab orchard, at surly as an overgrown bear or bengal tiger, and spiteful as a snipping armadilla; premature old age gathers upon him, in con sequence of his indulgences, and he suffers death an hundred times over in the formation of every villianous wrinkle, thickening up on his cherished phiz like fur rows after the ploughman, and deepening like gutters in a rain storm on a Georgia side-hill.— This is a bachelors life; all his benevolences and charities “ be gin and end , at home mere sensualist; self is his guiding star—of course he is boorish and ungentleinanly in his manners and carriage. The world has been too lenient in affixing old bache lorism at so late a period in life, it should commence at 25 years ot age. A man has no excuse for retiming single after that time in life. Now a female is differently Situated in this respect; she can make no advances without com promising her modesty and bring ing reproach upon herself, per haps from the very person she would wish to secure in the silken bonds of Hymen as an husband ; she may not have had a suitable offer, or may be waiting in hopes of one from someone whom her heart has chosen. But a male human has no such palliatives—a large garden js before him and he can chose one to suit himself somewhere. Every man has some thing about him to please some body ; either in personal or men tal attractions, or both, unless he be a perfect Caliban in body and mind. No Old Bachelor it is pro bable will ever be admitted into heaven. The enquiry will be made, “What good have you done on earth ?” “ Have you done anything to benefit or per petuate the human race?” “Have you attended to that first com mand from God to man, to i be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth ?’ ” “ Alas ! not one of them we attended to !” and you will hear that sentence thundered in your ears of “ depart ye cur sed” as ye have lived on earth to taka the lowest place in hell. If there are any grades in Pluto’s re gions, there is no doubt but that old bachelors will be classed a mong lowest, like cooks and scullions on the earth. Love up on earth is knowledge in heaven. The person who possesses the most love while on the one, will possess the most knowledge and he exalted to the highest rank and station in the other. Old bache lors are incapable of the tender passions and emotions, therefore they must rank very low, if any should by crook or twist happen ; to squeeze, into heaven, which is i not at all probable. A brandy \ drinking, lying, selfish set, “ I’il none of you.” Q. Vineville , September 14, 1837. IA@D>Ho SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1837. 03” “ Medicus” could not be inserted this week, in consequence of its length and the necessity we are under of using large type. It will appear in our next. OCr A fire broke out yesterday, in a workshop, near the Rev. Mr. Sinclair's, in Vineville—it was consumed. No other damage done. Engine No. 2, was promptly manned, and showed an anxious dis position to do their duty, but their services were not needed. S3* The weather has been cool enough for a few evenings pust to require woollen clothing : fires look ed very comfortable. 83* Oration, fcv the Honorable Henry L Pinck ney, of South-C*.olina, delivered before the Literary Societies of Franklin College, for sale by Messrs. Griffin &, Purse. 03" The Sexton reports one interment, that of a white infant, for the week ending to-day. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. The great length of this document precludes en tirely the possibility of our laying before our readers anything more of it, than a brief abstract of its lead ing features It is principally taken up with a dis cussion of the causes which have led to the late and present embarrased state of the monetory concerns of the country —witholding, until the annual meeting of Congress, information as to the general state of the Union. The late and present embarrasment he attributes, chiefly, to over action in all the departments of busi ness, deriving its impulses from antecedent causes— such as the immense and sudden expansion of Bank capital and Bank issues einco 1831; the vast in* crease of credit acquired by means of foreign loans, contracted by the States and State institutions— and the lavish auc ji.tniodauon extended by foreign deal ers io our merchants. Tiie of thisieiundancy of credit and of the spirit of speculation, he alleges it to have en gendered ; was, the creation ol a foreign debt of j n,ore than thirty millions. The extension of credit ! to tradei-3 in the interior for supplies greatly beyond j the wants ol the people ; the investment of forty mil aorih of collars in unproductive lands in 1835 and 36 ; | the eieation ol debts to an almost countless amount, tor real estate in existing or anticipated cities or vil lages ; tne diversion to oilier pursuitsoi niucu ol the labor mat should have been applied to agriculture, tnereby leading to heavy importations of gram in addition to many otner injurious resuits not enumer ated ; tne rapid grow tn among ad classes, but espe cially in the large commercial cities of luxurious Jia ons, louudeo too often on merely landed weal in, and detioriental anke to the resources, industry and the morals ol tue people. I ire flanks selected to recieve the public monies unuer tiie regulation ui tne ueposite law, having sus pended specie payments, he urges the const.tutrona! objections, winch lorbiu the receipt of depreciated paper m payment 01 tne revenues, and recommends the establishment ot sub-Treasury agencies, by which he thinks the public treasure can saiely be collected, kept anu disbursed. For a plan of tills system he refers Congress to the Secretary of the Treasury ; he urges the necessity of the government being divorced from flanks entirety, and unqualifi edly expresses h.s opposition to the creation of a Na tional Bank by Congress. DCr 3 Cotton crops are better this year than the last. Corn and wheat crops are good ; plenty of the “ star! ol lile”—no lear ot star ving. By-the-way, friend Hig gins has established a Bakery, [see his advertisement in this paper,] where all sorts of good Bread can be had by the needy ; good news for the planter, bring in your fiour. DC? 3 It will be seen by an adver tisement in our columns that the 1 heatrical season commences on Monday next, with the play of the “ Honey-Moon, or how to rule a Wife.” Some misunderstanding occasioned us to say that it would open with “ Mazeppa,” which will be played, however, during the stay of the Company. tTT Matthew Hall McAllister has been elected Mayor of the the City of Savannah, and Henry L. Pinckney Mayor of Charles ton. DC? 3 We were present at the de bate, mentioned in our last to be held in the Court House, on last Tuesday evening—Rev. Mr. Cas sells presiding; the disputants manifested a thorough knowledge of the subject they had chosen.— A large and respectable audience attended, and by their frequent and animated cheers manifested their pleasure and approbation. CC7 3 A great deal of wrangling in Congress about matters of lit tle importance, compared with those for which they were con vened. Not a word, as yet, about the embarrassed state of the coun try. Party spirit seems to go vern the movements of the whole body. We fear that little will he done to materially benefit the country, during the present ses sion, if indeed it be in the power