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fil MACON 1 .A'DVOBTIsb'R,
APiH AftRICWLTURALi AJTD ItISXtCAJtfTILE: INTELLIGENCE^.
Printed tend publisln tl on Tuesdays anti Fridays, by Jtlamsaduke jr. Slade, at Five Hollars per annum payable in advance.
.VOL. I.
prospectis
OF THE
Ml Agricultural and Mercantile Intelligencer.
,y rcC ent relinquishment of a participation
m the editorial labors of an old and welt
journal, would seem to require but
preliminary remarks, in the proposed under
iakin<r, were it not, that they are usually deman
,Tw public expectation, and sanctioned by
n'mn Vs there is no good reason why this
■time-honored observance” should be disregard
, nt |„. present instance, I shall submit an epit
ome of mv principles, and the course which shall
h ' observed in conducting anew journal. The
"Let ®f the proposed publication being purely
v lat its title implies, supercedes the necessity
0 f that political commentary which the doctrines
* the day have usually demanded; yet, as my
former professions are held with unabated at
* ichmeiit, and there being no neutral ground, in
the conflicting and varied sentiments, which dui
■r -rise as to°both men and measures —it follows,
ihnt 1 should not only make an exposition of my
political tenets, but also, that they should be
boldlv set forth, and fearlessly deleuded. 1 have
over indulged an ardent devotion to Republican
ism, as the term was understood by its advocates
u a sacred regard to the letter and spirit of
the Constitution, and a determined and fixed hos
tility to every tiling like constructive or implied
powers— an extension of equal justice to ail par
ties—that all power is inherent in and derived
from the people, as the original source and ulti
mate tribunal—the independence and distinct so
vereignty of the States, and their confederacy as
a Union, under a government limited and actual
ly defined in its powers. These are the promi
nent articles oi iny political faith, and believing
in their correctness, shall abide by them in every
trial. .
Among the many topics of deep interest that
aritate the people of ail classes, is the exercise
of unwarrantable governmental influence on the
industry and resources of the country, and the
unconstitutional expenditure of the public treas
ure to objects of internal Improvement —measures
too frequently destitute of general benefit, and of
tentimes marked by a spirit of partiality, selfish
ness and injustice. It would be criminal for one
•‘seated on the watch-tower,” and in the exercise
of the duties which belong to the Press, to ob
serve, with callous indifference, the causes which
have produced, and the effects which have re
sulted from the latitudinary construction of the
Constitution. The dangerous consequences which
may ensue, are already iudicated by the excited
feelings of the country. lam deeply impressed
that wrong has been done, and evil tolerated—
yet, with a spirit of forbearance, it would be bet
ter for the oppressed to bear their evils whilst
they are tolerable, than “fly to those they know
no* of.”
The present is an era in the l.ntory of our gov
ernment, distinguished for imp. vement. The
e ver of his country beholds it on its “return
march” to its original purity and principles.—
Already has the distinguished head of the gov-
eminent, said —“The successful operation of the
federal system can only be preserved by confin
ing it to the few and simple, but yet important
objects for which it was designed.” This is a
guarantee, that the purpose of the present Exe
cutive of the Union and his supporters, is an ef
: irt to restore the Constitution to its original
healthy and unimpaired condition. lam happy
accord with the Administration and its friends
a the wise and well directed course which is
pursued by them.
’ilie lime was, when to dissent from the mea
cures cl any of the prominent parties of our State,
by an attachment to any of the others, or to their
then distinguished organs, implied an hostility
u! acrimony which frequently' had no bounds,
■ ltd rendered “ Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation,''’
■ n empty and absurd profession. The times and
• treumstancts have now become more congenial
’o bettor feelings: the perplexing difficulties
■Much have surrounded us —those emanating
• broad, and fostered at home, have subsided,
■'Will the acknowledgment of our rights, and the
aiiccessfiil accomplishment of nearly all the ends
"which we have contended lor. 1 can review my
past course in relation to State affairs, with cheer
ag approbation; my future efforts w ill be inti-
Ju itely connected with the past; and it. is hoped,
"ithout offence I> an adverse party. The writer
'■oos not believe in the infallibility of man, nor
• :| their perfection as a party; it will therefore be
;,i y endeavor to support worthy men, and ap
t.rove such orthodox measures as may emanate
Hum genuine patriotict and unadulterated re
publicanism—such meat ires as will best answer
tie ends of our free government, and of our
Mate’s interest:—such inert as will “defend the
•'iirlits of the People, the Sovereignty of the
“lutes, mid the Constitutional authority of the
' 'j* ull against all encroachments#”
, “ s,ia ll be my studious endeavor to render the
ydi'geneer zn Agricultural and Mercantile ve
y. p : to eflect if, J shall hasten to pr> -sess niy
■t of all the necessary materials whit h these
Jj'le subjects furnish, to unfold every species
' • nUormation which will he thought to insruct,
1 inlcrost, and to please. It is believed, that
to mutual conjunction of interest, between the
■ lorchaut and Planter, cannot fail to render nc
-1 ptabij to one, whatever may benefit the other.
■!v efforts shall be used to procure the earliest 1
most useful mercantile information, and lay
'• litlore the public; and it. will be nry desire to
"• into Rural All'airs, and garner the choicest and
-st offerings for my Agricultural readers.
MARMAUUKE J. SLADE, j
_.'Ucox, January 1, 1831.
, vV
i, \ ' Saturday last, a Pocket Boole, containing
1 " a note on Lamar & Cos. for S3OO, due doth
• l 31, payable to Seaborn Jones, Adm'r and
tza A. Bullock, Adm’x of C. Bullock, dec’d.
" ’ L ' were several other papers in the book, use
•1:1 me, but no one rise. The finder will please
,! ve thy poekt t book w ith the subscriber, or the
itur of the Macon Advertiser, and a reward will
given if required.
, * U. J. BULLOCK.
Juno 7 15-
c<l
kl'i i.liS lirmsdl ag a Candidate lor the She
: ’ riir-dity of Bibb County, at the ensuing elec*
u. Ilc pledges himself to his friends that he is
‘'lured to do so more from an earnest desire to
' ; 'ivo the einohunents arising from the office
■m trmn the reason assigned by wont candi
(to wit) the imimrtunitu of friend;.
W.NH JOUN-STON.
: u-’-L
80KKB3ira3 SillLSS*
For July
Ipsosi Sait's.
Will be rob! at the Court-house in the town of Tho
mson, on the first Tuesday in July next,
IO i of land, No. 28 in the loth district of ori-
J giually Monroe now Upson, levied on as the
property of Joseph B. Arviu, to satisfy sundry fi
fas:
Lot of rand No. 52, in the 16th district of for
merly Houston now Upson, also, a negro fellow
by the name of Abb, taken as the property of Hen
ry Kendall and Elizabeth P. Kendall, ex’rs. of
Henry Kendall, dec. to satisfy Eaton Bass.
L. G. DAWSON, D. Sh’ff.
flilhfo salt's.
Will be sold at the Court-house in the town of Ma
con, on the first Tuesday in July next,
TM/'ATE R lot N o. 16, and improvements, occu
* * pied by Day & Butts, and negro boy Ed
mund, all levied on as the property of Nathaniel
Cornwell, or his interest in said property, to sa
tisfy a fi la from Mclntosh Superior Court.
2 negroes, Simon a boy and Missouri a girl,
sold as the property of Ehud Harris, to satisfy a fi
fa in favor of Francis Bacon.
"Will lie sold as aliove*
TM () negro girls, Missouri about 5 years old
and Loretto about 3 years old, taken as the
property of William P. Harris, one negro girl
named Mary about 16 years old, 202.} acres of
Land No. 11l in the third district originally
Houston now Bibb county—levied on as the prop
erty of Joshua Jordan, to satisfy sundry fieri fa
cias in favor of John S. Hunter bearer vs. said
Harris and Jordan— property pointed out by the
defendants—‘levy returned to me by Burwell M’-
Lendon constable.
Abner Cherry’s interest in ten acres of Land
and improvements, whereon said Cherry now
lives, known by No. 2—levied on to satisfy one
fieri facias in favor of Kimberly & Chisholm vs.
G. W. Jackson, and Abner Cherry and others—
levy returned to me by John'Smith constable.
H. H. HOWARD, l)ep. Stiff.
.It the same place, on the first Tuesday in July,
Three negroes, Simon a boy about ten years
old, Missouri a girl about 8 years old ; sold as
the property of William P. Harris to satisfy ar
mortgage fieri facias from the Inferior Court of
Bibb County in favor of Kimberly & Chisholm
vs said Harris.
WM. B. CONE, Sheriff.
ifouMoii Sales.
Will be sold ut the Court-House in the town of Perry
on the first Tuesday in July.
K and one half Lots Pine Land in the tenth (list.
of Houston county, well improved, whereon
John Billips now lives, bn Moss Creek, adjoin
ing Tull.Jimerson and others—all levied on as
property of Abner Wimberly and William Ham
ilton, executors of Richard Smith, dec. to sarisfy
a fieri facia3 in favor of Zachhariah Lamar.
Also , will be sold as above,
J ’(s} err.s of Land, more or less,known
1-Xi by Lot No. 1G in the first district
formerly Henry now Butts county—levied on as
the property of Hugh Hamii, to satisfy a fieri fa
cias issued from the superior court of said cottnty
in favor of Elijah Padget vs. Hugh Hamii and
Simeon Hamii and Bryant V. llamil.
202 J acres of land, more or less, known by Lot
No. 150 in the third district of formerly Monroe
now Butts county—levied on as the property of
William Bennet to satisfy a fieri facias issued
from a justices court of Newton county in favor of
James Howard vs. L. B. Hargroves ad’mr. iic.
of William Bennet, deceased—property pointed
out by plaintiff’s attorney.
11. W, HARKXESS, Hep. Sheriff.
Halls Series.
Will be sold at the Court-house in the town of Jack
son, on the first Tuesday in July next,
1 negro girl about six or seven years old by the
name of lvisiah, one yoke oxen and a cart, one
cow and calf, 2 heifers about two or three years
old, one steer yearling, two sows and twelve pigs
and seven shoats, one patent clock, one folding
table, four sitting chairs, one silver watch, one
plank box, one mahogany dressing table, one pine
chest—all levied on as the property of Palmer A.
Higgins, to satisfy a fieri facias issued from Butts
Inferior Court in favor of Simpson Bobo vs said
H iggins—property pointed out by plaintiff’s attor
ney and defendant.
Lot No 1 in square No. 19, whereon is a dwell
ing house, and Lot No. 4 in square No. 19 in the
town of Jackson, each being 205 feet square more
or less; levied on as the property of Daniel M.
Jackson to satisfy sundry fieri facias issued from
Butts superior court, one in favor of Elisha W.
Chester and two in favor of the officers of Butts
Superior court by vs. Daniel M. Jaeksou.
JOSEPH SUMMERLIN, Sheriff.
One hundred acres Pine Land is the fourteenth
district of Houston county, with a good gristmill
known now as Dykes’ mill; levied on as the
property of Jordan Dykes and Edward Welch,
his security, to satisfy two fieri facias in favor of
Benjamin Kent : levy made and returned to me
by a constable.
One stnail part of a Lot in the town of Perry,
known in the plan of said town by No. 4 in square
letter D. being 210 feet in length and 30 in bredth
with a store house thereon, fronting Broad street;
levied on as the property of lveeland Tyner, to
satisfy a fieri facias in favor of Isaiah Chapman.
•Smart, a negro boy, ten or twelve years old; lev
ied on as the properly of James Finley principal,
Solomon Simpson and E. K. Hodges his secu
rities, to satisfy two fieri facias vs. James Finley
—levy made and returned to me by aconstable. !
One featherbed —levied on as the property of:
John Tyner, tax-collector of Houston county, to j
satisfy two fieri facias, one in iavor oftlic Justices j
of the Inferior Court for the use of the county of i
Houston. _ ...
HENRY W. RALEY, Sheriff. >
© saaawvisiasß* i
fflilE subscribers have united themselves in j
£ the practice of Medicine. Their shop is next |
door to the Repertory Office.
AMBROSE BARER.
JAMES T. PERSONS. j
Macon; May 3, 1831. G t
PROTn
Of every ilcscipfiott,
Jvt fits t {'Arrfrw Offer. J
MACON.: TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1831.
Cotton IS*!frying*
The subscriber has now in store,
1 AAA pieces hemp
IWWW IS.IGUI*Y£4,
Of good quality, and will have a full supply
during the season, which it til be sold on ac
commodating terms.
WM. P. HUNTER.
Macon, June 10. 10-St
For Salt 1 , or Kent,
rgMIE Property recently owned by Col. Joel
X Baley, and known as the
tllouuUthi Spout I£ctrent,
In Butts County.
This Property is too well known to require de
scription.
J. T. ROWLAND.
April 23 3
_ of ton Hugging*
THE Subscribers are receiving Two thousand
pieces hemp, flax and tow BAGGING, which
they offer for sale at very low prices on an
extensive credit for approved paper.
jutie, 17. 18 DAY It BUTTS.
*Yolice.
PTUIE copartnership heretofore existing between
the subscribers under the firm of
G. Champlain fr Cos.
was dissolved on the 6th inst. by mutual consent.
G. CHAMPLAIN is fully authorised to settle
the affairs of the concern.
JOHN T. ROWLAND,
L. ATKISON,
G. CHAMPLAIN.
Macon, June 7, 1831. 15-8 t
The business le Cont inued by
G. CHAMPLAIN.
June 7, 1831. 15-3
Moot*' Store*
jejjljMs, snoi\i'i:ijij tv.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
HISTORICAL.
Life of Marion,
“ Washington,
Marshalls do
Robertsons America,
Modern Europe
Grimshaw’s England,
Grimshaw’s Rome,
Gibbon’s do
Scott’s Life ofNapoleon
Rollins History
Plutarch’s Lives,
Josephus
Goldsmith’s Works
Grimshaw’s U. States.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
Smileys Geography and
Atlas,
Morses do do.
Pocket Maps,
POLITIC \L.
Says Political Economy
Junius’ Lettcis,
! Fergusons Civil Society
MEDICAL, &c.
Bells Anatomy,
Manual of general Anat
omy,
Cooper’s Surgery
Eberle’s Practice
Cox’s Dispenstory
Ewell’s Medical Com
panion,
Gregory’s Practice
Taverneirs Surgery
Pharmacopia
Manual of Obstetrics
Rush on the Mind,
Devve’s Practice
Thomas Practice,
Francis’ Denman
Poetry - , Novels, Mis
cellanies, if c.
Pope’s Works^
Scott’s do
.Moore’s do
Burn’s do
Hannah Moore’s do
Arabian Nights
Halt’s Byron
Milton’s Works
Paley’s Philosophy
Lafayette in America
Cowper’s Poems
Don Qnixotte,
Gil Bias
Humphrey Clinker
Tom Jones
Peregrine Pickle
Roderick Random
Hndibrass
Syntax’s Tour
Beauties of Shakspcarc
“ “ Waverly
Unique
Moral Tale
Course of Time
British Spy
Thompsons Seasons
Vicar of Wakefield
Old Bachelor
Tavern Anecdotes
Events in Paris
Riley's Narrative
Paul and Virginia
Cooper’s Novels
He iress of Bruges
Separation
Oconians
The Baroney
I ost Heir,
(-AM M1YTI11&.
\ FEW Git ass Si vihks, with snaths com
plete. For sale by
ELLIS, kjfIOTWELL, & Cos.
May 3, 1831. 4-tf.
! ~ mFStsiU'/ET ~
k SUPERIOR and well tuned PIANO, near
.9l ly new— enquire of J. T. LAMAR.
Jn no 21, 1831. iy—3w
I S a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bibb
county, at thp ensuing election.
Mar iy 10-tf
Deyerenx
Disowned
Darnly
Denounced
Clowdcsiy
Brcckenbiidge Hall
Record of Woman
Rivals.
Divinity, Theology £>c.
Bibles and Testaments of
sizes agd qualities.
Family do. plain, extra
and superfine
Bible C> uestions
Moral Instructor
Pilgrim’s Progress
Songs of Zion
Saints Rest
Rise and Progress
Magee on Atonement
Davies’ Sermons
Bucks Dictionary
Baxters Calls
Testament 1 (istory
Christian Pattern
Devotion of the Heart
Confessions of Faith.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
English and ClasiicaJ.
Murray’s Grammar
“ Exercises
“ Reader
New York Reveler, No.
1,2, and 8.
Carculators, •
Juvenile Books,
New York Primers
Pikes Arithmetic
Walkers Dictionary
Hoopers do
Johnson’s do
Enticks do
Blairs Rhetoric
Jomeson’s Logic, .
Day’s Algebra
Crabb’s Synonymes
kJlmpson’s Euclid
Adam’s Latin Grammar
Virgil Dolphin!
1 lorace do
Ovid do
Schriveli’s Lexicon,
PLAIN AND FANCY
Stationary.
Foolscap and Letter
PAPEn,
Green Medium Paper
Pen Knives
Silver Pencil Cases
Ink, Pounce, India
Rubber, Slates,
Ready made Pens,
Quills —a large assort
ment,
Bank Note Paper—me
dium size,
Ledgers, Journals, and
Day Books, all sizes,
Copy Books,
Crayons
Pocket Books,
Patent Lithographic bills
of Exchange
Fancy Snuff Boxes,
A variety of Prints and
Albums, elegantly and
beautifully executed.
Paper Hangings of vari
ous patterns.
Segar Boxes. U. &c.
Hardware A* Cutlery*
fffMIE subsribers have received by recent
“ arrivals a large and general stock of HARD
WARE, CUTLERY, MECHANICS TOOLS,
iic. —a few are given below.
50 kegs best Cut Nails and Brads, assorted
288 (21d0z.) Shovels and Spades,
12 Anvils, and 6 boxes Axes
100 pair Trace Chains
6 dozen Sickles and 4 dozen Scythed
550 saddle irons, 6 boxes pipes
200 set cart and waggon boxes
4 cords grass rope, 75 nests Iron Weights
13,000 jiointds (’<*stings,
Steel assorted, Weeding Hoes
Wrought Nails, Cotton Cards
Locks assorted, Wood Screws
Chisels and files, do, in sets Cast Steel
Brass Andirons, Shovels and Tongs
Iron do Tea Kettles
Augurs, Steel-yards, Hinges assorted
Cast and German Steel Saws
Mill Saws, Pit and Cross Cut do.
Masons Trowels, Bellows,
Sand paper, Hammers, Curry Combs *
Looking Glasses,
Glass and Brass Lamps and Candle Sticks
Plated do do Castors
Briiania, Coffee and Tea Pots
Do. Plates and Tumblers
A large assortment of Carpenters and
Joiners Planes
Plane Irons, Brads, Kettles, Sugar Boilers
Waffle and Wafer Irons
Ploughs and Plough Moulds, &e.
Together with sets of Carpenters Tools,
Smiths’ do. Tanner’s and Currier’s do
Halters, Painters and Masons do
A'd of which will be sold- on reasonable terms,
at wholesale or retail.
ELLIS, SIIOTWELL & CO.
June 23 90-
ESlis, Nliotwcll A' Cos.
MAVE received at their Drug Store by several
beats.
100 packages of Drugs and Medicine, Glass
Ware, Surgical Instruments, Patent Med
icines, Perfumery, Ac.
1000 kegs Paint iu Oil, assorted.
11000 galls. Linseed, Sperm and Whale Oils,
50l boxes assorted Window Glass,
Spanish Brown, dry. do in Oil.
Verdigris, do do
Venetian Red do do
Chrome Yellow do Green.
Red Lead, Umber, Terade Sienna, Lamp Black,
Ivory, black do. Black Lead, Blue, Brown, and
Green Smalts, Frostings, Gold and Silver Leaf,
Copper do, and Copper Bronze, Paint Brushes,
assorted, Diamonds, Paint Stones and Mul'ers,
Putty, Whiting, Chalk, Rotten Stone, Pummice
Stone, Red Chalk, Ac. Ac.
(Ej* Purchasers are invited to call and examine
for themselves.
Macon, June 21, IG3I. 20—
frails, Teas, ll’iitc, A’c.
<S*(TX boxes Bloom and Bunch RAISINS,
.-wH J Prunes, Almonds, Citron, Preserves,
Lemon Syrup, Hyson, imperial and Black
Teas. also,
A few boxes extra CLARET WINE, be
ing a part of a private Stock.
lObbls. superior CIDER VINEGAR.
ELLIS, SHOTWELL A CO.
June 24, 1881. 20—
The Subscribers
I NFORM the public that they have connected
themselves in the business of manufacturing
and repairing COTTON GINS. The construc
tion of their Gins is the result of experience, ‘and
their performances in all cases warranted —old
work will bo well and speedily repaired. Their
Shop is on Bridge Street and Court-house Square,
near the Mansion House, where their friends are
invited to call. ZACHARIAH SIMS.
THOMAS SIMPSON.
Macon, June 24, 1831. 20—tf
OFFICE BANK STATE OF GEORGIA.
Macon, June 23d, 1831.
milE Board of Directors will on Tuesday next,
5 the 26th inst. elect a Book Keeper for this
Office—Salary will be S6OO, per annum.
A Bond with two or more approved securities,
in the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars will be
required.
Applications must be addressed to the Cashier
previous to the day of Election.
J. WILLCOX, Cashier.
Macon June 24, 1831. 20-lw
CuUtbcrt & l* Hi ill
OAVE opened their Law Office at the Cent
- missioner’s Hall in the Market-house, Mil
ledgeville, Georgia. One of them is always to be
found there ready to attend to professional calls.
They will practice in the following Counties A
Circuits:
Ocmu/free Circuit— Baldwin, Jones, Putnam and
Wilkinson.
F/mt Circuit.— Bibb, Monroe and Henry.
C/uittuh one It ie Circui t —Tal bot.
Southern Circuit —Twiggs, Telfair, £>•■.
Middle Circuit —Washington.
Millcdgeville, June 23 20-
Pocket Maps
lit) Greene &. Wellborn,
FUST received, and for sale, price Two Dol
lars, by M.J).J. SLADE.
May 27 12-
■
I) AN AWAY on the 17th inst. from Macon, a
yellow negro man named LEWIS, about4o
years of age—his hair is perfectly straight Snd
very black ; he has a wart about his ear, has slow
movements, and although an intelligent servant
generally seems stupid from a frequent habit of
intoxication. He was seen on the road about half
way between this and Mtlledgeville. The above
reward will be'paid for his apprehension or con
finement in any jail, so that 1 may getbimngain.
JOHN L. Mf STIAN.
June 01st 18?1. I!>—tf
OKai£lKo'3>£f<
-—r“A poet’s hand and prophet’s fire,
' Struck the wild warbling! of his lyre.
From the Alabama. Spirit of the Age.
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.
A hundred years hence !
What a change will be made
In politics, morals,
Religion and trade !
In statesmen who wrangle
Or ride on the fence
How things will be alter’d,
A hundred years hence!
The heads of the ladies
Such changes must find-*-
We do not speak now
Of mutations of mind—
From three bushel bonnets
To snug little bats !
The scoops, Navarinoes—
The Gipseys and flats.
With furs and with ribands,
With feathers and flowers—
Eomc fashion’d by artists,
Some pluck’d from the bowers,
But heads will be changed too
In science and sense,
Before we have number’d
A hundred year hence.
Our laws 1 ill be then
Uncompulsory rules—
Our prisons be changed
Into national schools.
Tho pleasures of vice
Are a silly pretence
Aral people will know it
A hundred years hence.
All vice will be seen,
When the people awake,
To rise out of folly—
’Tis all a mistake !
The lawyers and doctors
And ministers too,
Will have—l am thinking
But little to do.
Their careful attention
They then may bestow
On raising potatoes
Or turnips you know ;
Or any employment
They choose to commence,
For arts will he many
A hundred years hence.
And you and I reader —
Where shall we be found ?
Can any one V-'H,
When that time will come round f
In transports of pleasure
Or sorrows intense 1
We’ll know more about it
A hundred years heuce.
PHILIP PHANTOM.
A FRAGMENT.
He was a wanderer? far from his home
He had strayed, in there in silence, stood
Gazing mournfully on ths glittering foam,
That sported gently on the rolling flood.
The hour was calm ; all was at rest;
Save him, the low murmnrings of the wave;
And the cold nightwind that came from the west,
And swept across the fallen stranger’s grave :
On which the pale flow’r of the desert waste, ‘ i
Waved its bright but fading beauties, in wild
Luxuriance : fit emblem this, and chaste,
To instruct man in lessons deep, tho’ rnild.
From the wave he turned ‘ and, as his eye
Rested on the rough time Worn stonfc, that kept
The resting place of his friend in mem’ry,
Ilis burden’d features relax’d ; and he w ept
Long and sorrowfully ; for then, a thought
Of their young years like the whirlwind,
Across his brain ; and the remembrance brought
Scenes of joy, and hope, and love o’er his mind,
In all the freshness in which they bloomed,
To cheer the morning of his life.
ST. PAUL.
: Thefollowing beautiful extract, is from an Eng
lish Prize Poem on Athena.
Here where wild Fancy Wondrous fictions drew,
And knelt to worship ’till she thought them true;
Hero in the paths Which baneful error trod,
She great Apostle preach’d the unknown God.
j Silent the crowd were hush’d ; for his the eye
| Which power controls not, sin cannot defy; ”
I Hlajhc tall stature and - the lifted hand,
I And the fixed countenance of grave command :
j And hisf thc voice which, heard but once will sink
So deep into the Hearts of those that think,
j That, they may live till years and years are gone,
! And never lose one echo of its tone.
Yet when the voice had ceased, a clamor rcfcc :
And mingled clamor rang from friends and foes :
The threat was mutter’d, and the galling >-ibe,
By each pale sophist and his paltry tribe :
’Fhe haughty stoic passed in gloomy state,
Tho heartless cynic scowled hs grovelling hale;
And the soft garden’s rose encircled child
Smiled unbelief, and shuddered as he smiled.
Paul tranquil stood, for lie had heard—could hear
Blame and reproach with an untroubled ear;
O’er his broad forehead visibly were wrought
The dark, deep lines of courage and of thought;
And if the colour from hie cheek was fled,
Its paleness spoke no passion and no dread,
The meek endurance and the steadfast will,
The patient nerve that suffers and is still,
The humble faith that bend to meet the Rod,
And the strong hope that turns from Man to God,
All these were his, and his firm heart was set;
He knew the Hour must come—but was not yet*
TIME’S SONG.
O’er the level plain where mountains
Greet me as I go,
O’er the desert waste where fountains
At my bidding flow,
On the boundless beam by day,
On the cloud by night,
I am rushing hence away !
Who w iir chain my flight I
War his weary watch was keeping r
I have crushed his spear;
Crief within her bower was weeping.
1 have dried her tear ;
Pleasure caught a minute’s hold—
Then I hurried by,
Leaving all her banquet cold,
And her goblet dry.
Power had won a throne of glory—
W here is now his fame ?
Genius said—‘l live in story
V\ ho hath heard liis name I
Love, beneath a myrtle bough,
Whisper’d why so fast I
And the roses on his brow
Wither’d as 1 pass’d.
I have heard the heifer lowing
O'er the wild wave’s bed,
I have Seen the billows flowing
Where the cattle fed ;
W here began my wanderings l
Memory will not stay :
W here will rest my weary wings 1
Science turns away!
From the Philadelphia Album.
ABSENT FRIENDS.
How many hours of sweet yet pensive re
flection <lo we pass, as memory “calls up tt>
view” those hallowed elteerers of the rough
Jnd broken path of life. How pleasant it is
to think that those whom time and circum
stances have separated from us, w ill ere long
return to gladden us w ith happy smiles, and
cause our deserted hearts to “blossom as tho
rose.”
There is something chastening and holy in
the thought of absent friends—of those who
have partaken with us the innocent sports of
their childhood, and made our breasts the re
pository of their little sorrows, and in by*
gone— after years, when time and trial
had chilled the aspiring hopes of our ear
lier existence, been one with us m peril and
Safety, in pleasure and in pain. In recurring
to thoughts ol absent friends, we cannot but
remember with rapture the one whom wc hare
loved, and shall ever love, with a devotion as
pure and and isinterested as that of a brother for
a sister—she who is the “light of our path,”
for whom we would sacrifice every thing
earthly, and with whom wc would gladly pass
every coming moment of our existence—she
in whom every boyish dream has been cen
tered, tvitii whom we talked of bliss to cornc,
and for whom w e would have died, if the sa
crifice had been demanded. Yet, in the re
trospect of the feelings, tho thoughts, tho
love of one who is “all and all” to us, one
who is almost the engrossing thought in ail
seasons, we must remember the meek and
pure devotion of a sister’s affection, the high
and noble disinterestedness of a brothers,and
the enduriftg, changeless, and undying fond
ness of a mother’s love Our hearts grow
light, and bound with rapture at the content- i
plation—these feelings are too refined and
sylph-like for the air of earth, and should ex
ist only in the atmosphere of and more pure
and heavenly clime.
Oh, wo to him who has no friends. Some
there are tvho wander over the surface of the
globe with no eye to please, *no heart on
which they can lay the gathered offerings of
years of exile and change, no hand to
welcome the worn wanderer with a friendly
grasp to his own dear home. On the other
hand, he who possesses friends, will, when ho
is absent in a far and strange land, imagine ‘
that every scene is mere blooming and evert
face happier ; as he paints to himself the
bright smile which will mantle the check,
and play around the lips of the early loved,
when he recounts to them the joyous scenes
and imminent perils through which lie has
passed, and contrasts them with delights of
his own cherished home. All past percep*
lions and remembrances grow dim and fad l ’,
before the boundless tide of bits#/ which
swells within the heart of man when he re
turns to his home and the dear domestic
round, and w hen he grasps the honest and '
faithful hand ol him who has forgotten him
in a separation of many years.
I hose are the green spots in the deserts of
our existence, the only places on which the
eye may linger or the weary foot find rest, as f
we plod mournfully and mechanically on to
the all-devouring tomb—the tomb, that cirenir
ed and dreadful receptacle of the living, that
Rubicon which we all must pass." Tim
thought o/ourfrxe’nds is even there. When
man “ lieth down to die,” his most earnest
and pervading hope 13, that he may be united
with his friends. And if he and they have
passed this w earying pilgrimage “ pans pour
et sans reprochc,” it will be so. Theta will
they meet, and form a family among the lies*.
Romost.
Typographical errors—A Southern paper
advertises a large quantity of mice (rice) lots
to suit purchasers ; and a merchant in tho
West, offers for sale, three hundred bushels
of cats (cation a reasonable credit.
NO. 21.