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BY THOMAS A. BURKE, PROPRIETOR.
VOL. VII.
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UAWFORD & CRAWFORD, Attorneys at
Law, Cassville, Ga.-As a firm under the
above name John A. & M. J. Crawford will
promptly and faithfully attend to all business
intrusted to their care in any of the counties of
the Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw
ford will ffive particular attentiou to the collec
ting of all claims and debts, and will spare no
pains to put clients in speedy possession of their
money. nih I^l - v
W. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor
• ganton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun
ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5
VMES MILNER, Attorney at Law, Cass-
Y iHe, Geo. Practises in the counties of the
Cherokee circuit. mh *’
8~0 CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law , Cai
. houn, Geo. —Practice in the counties of
the Cherokee circuit. !l P r ~ L
H TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton,
. Ga—Business entrusted to his care in any
of the counties of the Cherokee circuit w ill meet
with prompt attention. y ° T - 21 •
WEIL, Attorney at Law, Canton, Geor
• <ria. Business entrusted to his care in
any of the counties of the Blue Ridge circuit, will
meet with faithful attention. _ _, _
Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov.
McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Brown,
Canton; Capt. W. T. Wofford, Cassville; Col.
Geo. N. Lester, Camming.
Feb 16, 1855 ts
J. FAIN, Attorney at Law, Calhoun, Ga,
y, win practice in all the counties of the
Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be
paid to the collecting business. mb 0.
WT WOFFORD, Attorney at Law, Cass
• ville, Ga.—Practices in all the counties
of the Cherokee circuit, and will attend faithful
ly to all business entrusted to his care. Office
east ot the court house. aug 18 ts
HOOPER & RICE, Attorneys at Law, Cass
ville, Geo.—Practice in the counties of
Cass, Cobb. Chattooga, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dade
Floyd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, Walk
er and Whitfield. John- R. Rice will, as here
tofore, continue to £ive his personal ami almost
exclusive attention to the collecting business,
april 20, 1854. __
L. BARBOUR, Attorney at Law, Atlan-
J% ta, Georgia.— Will practice in the differ
ent Courts of Fulton and contiguous counties.
Particular attention given to the execution of
Interrogatories, and draughting legal instru
ments. Claims in the city of Atlanta will be
promptly attended to. Office in the Holland
House,, iip stairs.—Entrance first .door above
Whitil?y <sc Hunt.. Feb 16, ’55 ly
WIKLE A WIKLE, Dealers in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Ac. Ac. South west corner
of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga.
Jan. 26, 1854.
D. CARPENTER, Dealer in fancy, staple
• and domestic drygoods, sugar, coflbc,nio*
Asses, Ac.; hardware, cutlery, Ac., at Erwin’s
old stand, Cassville, Ga. Jan 1.
TW. HOOPER A CO., Dealers in Staple and
• Fancy Goods, Groceries, Iron, Hats, Caps,
Boots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at the Brick store,
Cassville, Ga. Feb 2, 18.54.
HIRSCHBERG A DAVIDSON, Cassville,
Ga. —Manufacturers of clottung, and deal
ers in Boots, SUoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen’s
Furnishing Good-, Fancy Goods, and Jewelfy,
Wholesale and Retail, at Patton's olb stand
Cassville, Ga. June 23 1854.
OCKETT fe SNELLIXGS, Factors and
General Commission Merchants, will attend
strictly to Receiving and Forwarding aud
Helling everything sent to our address,
sept 9 —6 in*
WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer m Dry Goods.
Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery*,
Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal
houn, Ga.
May 5,1854. —1 y
G. COURTENAY, A CO. No\ 3, Broad
• street, Charleston, South Carolina. Books,
Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magaziuos, and
Newspapers.
The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman
ces, Ac., in the Southern country.
iW Near the Post Office. ’ nih 16
8. G, COUETENAY. W. A. COUKTKNAY.
HYATT McBURNEY & CO., Direct Im
porters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign
and Domestic Dry Goods, No. 37 Hayne Street,
Charleston, S. C. Jan 12, 1855 —49 —ly
WARD A BURCH AUD, Augusta Ga.,
would inform their friends and the pub
lic generally, that anticipating a change in their
business, the coming season, they are-disposed
to make large concessions from their former low
Beales of prices, in order to reduce their stock to
the lowest possible point,. The attention of
wholesale dealers as well as customers, is res
pectfully solicited.
Dec 22
PARR & McKENZlE.—Factors and Commis
sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries,
Produce and Merchandise generally, Atlanta,
Ga.
Particular attention given to consignments ot
Cotton, Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of Produce.
L. J. PARR. K. UCKESZIE.
nug. li.—ly.
W INSHIPS IRON WORKS.—The subscri
ber is now prepared to receive and cxc
cute order* for any kind of Castings, or Ma
chine work, and all persons favoring him with
orders may rely upon having them executed in
he best manner, and with despatch. Orders
Rtwfn* an '* d (,,,rs promptly attended to
Conner Establi ? h T >nent. 1 Cast paid for old
Copper, B r a 8s and Iron Castings.
Atlanta a -t JOSEPH WINSHIP.
Atlanta, Ga., June 80, F&4.
— ■ 1
T} ‘^OKSMITIIING. —The Subscriber 1
meoto, toSSSH
manner, and on the most reasonable b-rms -
SEfiC-r* A!h ‘Ttei 1 ’
Cassyille, Ga,, FcS. 16,1855.-^i y PFIN -
Atlanta, hard-ware store - a t
•BIiAD l , Whitehall Street, keeps “always
on hand a full assortment of Iron, Nails Cut
lery, Mill Irons, Springs, Axles, Carriage Trim
mings, Cooking and Parlor Stoves, Mechanic’s
and farmers Tools, &c., which will be sold us
low as can be bought in any market.
Atlanta, G 0.., July 14, 1.3.54.
* MIBIUJI iIIHH
Bdbcirfigehicnfg.
CARRIAGE and Duggy Making Establish
ment at Cartersville Cass county Georgia,
fyjipMß w. WF. would solicit a continuance of
the patronage heretofore enjoyed.—
We are doing good work, and at reasonable pri
ces. We keep on hand a good selection of
Stock, and have employed a fine assortment of
lirstrate Mechanics, wlio know what they are
ibout* We warrant our work not to fail. Give
us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Our
motto is Honesty and Industry.
JONES & GREENWOOD.
Cartersville, Ga., July 8, 1854.
NEW Tailoring establishment, at Cartersville
Georgia, Shop at S. 11. I atillo’s old stand.
V 3 The subscriber has lately openad in
jfl the town of Cartersville a New Tai
(fig i.oanse Establish* ent, where he is pre
“LUL - pared to do auy work in his lino in the
best and most fashionable manner, no guar
antees all work turned out of his shop to lit in
the most unexceptionable manner. Particular
ly attention paid to cutting and fitting jobs for
I ladies. He respectfully solicits a fair trial, as
he is confident of success.
SILAS O’SHIELDS.
sept 9 —ly
rpo FARMERS AND PLANTERS. A. A J.
.1 L. Hill, are now receiving a superior lot
of Negro Shoes, Negro Blankets and Kerseys,
Osnaburgs, Shirtings, Trunks, Ac., for the fall
and winter trade, which they are offering Low
for Cash, or on short time. ‘ Farmers or others
“wishing to pu-chase such articles will do well
to give us a call and examine prices, for we will
have them on hand and intend to sell. All that
we ask is that you will call and examine for
yourselves, east of the court house.
Cassville, Oct 27
. -rr EORGE VOGT’S Piano and
r'• :gH V I Music Store, Lib. 148 Arch
rrWWlstreet, Philadelphia. Constantly
*d ** t) ii hand Pianos, Melodeons, Musi
cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu
sic, Ac. Ac.
Volt’s Pianos arc pronounced superior to
all others in sweetness, power and beauty of
tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons
wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt
ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do
well to give them a trial. sept I—l1 —1
“VTOTICE TO LAND OWNERS! The under
signed having removed from Albany to
Troupville, Lowndes county, Ga.
Will in addition to the practice of Law examine
and report the value of land in the counties of
Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, Anpaling and
Irwin. He will, when requested, examine
Lands personally, and give full information as
to value, location and probability of immediate
sala. Having no connection whatever with
land speculation he will engage to act as agent,
in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the
aforesaid counties for a fee of ten per cent, up
on the amount received or paid out, His char
ges for examining land will be five dollars per
lot, for lands in the I,2th districted Lowndes, in
all the other districts, he will charge ten dol
lars. Additional will be charged for an exami
nation of title upon record.
EPHRIAM H. PLATT,
Attorney at Law,
Troupville, Lowndes Cos. Ga.
Nov 17—ly
FIAXOS, SHEET MUSIC, Ac. Ac.
THE undersigned is pre
pared to furnish Vogt’s
Pianos, at short notice,
fj Ms and on as good terms as
I IJ they can be had anywhere
T “ at the South. These in
struments are warranted to be equal in point of
tone, durability and workmanship, to any man
ufactured in the world. Every Piano warranted,
for five years. Any instrument failing to meet
the expectations of the purchaser, may be re
turned at any time within six months, and an
other will be given in its stead. Having a
brother (a Professor of Music) in Philadelphia,
who selects,every Piano sent out, purchasers
may rest assured that none but perfect iustru
meats, in every respect, will be sold.
A large lot of Sheet Music, of the latest and
most fashionable issues, constantly on hand
and for sale at Publisher’s prices.
WM. FtCHERZER,
Professor of Music in Cassville
Dee. 8,1854—1 y Female-College.
y-. VTJIITNIZY A CLAYTON, Ware
yi L House and Commission Mer
jfeg'X chants, Augusta, Ga. —Continue the
business in all its branches, and will give
tbeir personal attention to the sale of COTTON
and other produce. Cash advances made when
required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies
purchased at the lowest market rates. Com
mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale,
auglß
OLD SOLDIERS. —By a recent Act of
Congress, all persons who have served in
any War since l79f>, are entitled to 160 acres of
Land—and those who have received “Warrants
for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient
number of acres to mike that amount. The
undersigned wiH attend to the collection of
such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD.
Cassville, mh B—ts8 —ts
Agency at Washington.—The un
. dersigned prosecutes all manner of claims
against the United States, before Congress, be
fore Commissioners, and before all the Public
Departments, and especially claims for bounty
land under the act of Congress just passed, pen
sions, back-pay, half-pay, adjustment of amounts
of disbursing officers, settlement of postmas
ters and contractors accounts, and every other
business requiring the prompt and efficient ser
vices of an attorney or agent.
A residence of twenty years at the seat of the
Federal Government, with a thorough and fa
miliar acquaintance w'ith all the routine of the
public business at the different offices, added to
his free access to consult die ablest legal advi
sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg
ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch
to those who may entrust their business to liis
care.
Being well known so the greater portion of
the citizens of Washington, as well as to many
gentlemen who have been members of both
Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it
is deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by
special references. A full power of attorney
should accompany all cases. Communications
must bo pae-paid in all cases. Fees regulated
by nature and extent of the business, but al
ways moderate.
H. C. SPALDING, Attorney.
Washington, D. C. mb 15—
BOUNTY LANDS. —The undersigned hav
ing long been engaged in the prosecution
of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen
sion Claims, Bounty Laud Claims Ac., against
the General Government, now tenders his ser
vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty
T/imd Claimants for the procurements of their
Claims, as there are many such Claims under
the late law’of Congress, which gives an addi
tional Bounty of Land to the soldies-s of all the
wars in whicn the United States has engaged
since 1790, who have not received as much ub
160 acres.’ . ELISHA KING.
Adairsville Ga. mb 22—2 m
SELLING off'at Coßt for Cash, As the under
signed is closing up the jbusiness of the firm
of Lealys & Howard, he has determined to
sell off at cost for cash.
Come all that want good bargains and corns
quick or you will miss them. ■ _
Cartersville, Dec I—ts W. W. LEAKE.
Ready-made clothing, Panti. stuff,
Chambray, and a fine assortment of Jew
elry, at LEVY’S CASH STORE,
apr ts 1
fl Liioiljj Ijeto,s(j!)[jer—jJebofeO to jtiiiioiiql State polities; Lifetfilui-c, the Dql-liofe, ioreigr) .fjoiTiestic Ketos, ke.
CASSVILLE, GLA., THURSDAY, JULY 19,1855.
dDrigintil
] of X^*
When morning flings, in glory bright,
Her rosy robe o’er earth and sea;
When raven midnight briDgs repose,
I think of thee! I think Os thecl
When stars through Heaven’s pure azure
gleam,
Those tiny sky-blooms, fair to see;
Or when fair Luna gilds the earth,
I think of thee! I think of thee!
When day is done, and stilly night
Brings “gentle, calm repose to me—
When cares and trouble take their flight,
In balmy sleep, I dream of thee 1
Through all the hours of the day,
Whate’er my thoughts—where’er I be—■
Through all the watches of the night,
My prayers ascend to heaven for thee!
Dnmonras Ikttrjj.
The Bull Fight at Brauss’; or,
W 0 H oolr n z “i 17 a if oi* 7.”
BY JONCE HOOPER*
Our friend Isaac Brauss is a devoted
lover of fun. ‘* A good joke is the sum
mum bonum of’ his life. Hospitable, in
dolent, wealthy, lie only exerts himself
to get a laugh, and we verily believe fle
would prefer that frost should blight his
cotton crop rather than that the promise
of “ a good thing” should be defeated.
His mansion is near a highway considera
bly travelled, and as he indulges the
dolcefar niente , in his front piazza, it
not unfrcqueutly happens that he picks
up “ a subject.” It was precisely in this
way that he got hold of a little gascona
ding Frenchman, last summer, and ex
tracted from his eccentricities, broken
English, and hraggadocia proclivities,
immense store of the richest enjoyment
—at the slight cost of a month’s board
and an occasional dollor to be invested
at the neighboring village. Monsieur
Crapaud was full of life, volatile-, vivaci
ous, constantly recounting his “hair
breath ’scapes” and his wondrous feats.
Among these latter, he one day told
Isaac, how “ upon a time” he had volun
teered to enter the ring at Madrid, where
he had out-shone all the matadores of
the occasion, by the bravery and skill
with which lie had mastered a vast bull
whose tremendous size and ineffable fe
rocity shook the nerves of all the Span
ish cliivalry present.
“ Harkee, Crappy,” said Isaac, address
ing Monsieur by a nick name the French
man did not al together relish", “ Harkee,
Crappy, you talk a great deal about
your bull fights, but I’ve got a yearlin’
here, not much above a year and a half
old, that the children about the yard
have learned to butt a little, and I’ll bet
lie can whip you any day !”
“ Sucre,'’ growled Crappy, “ bPgar,
Mons. Brauss, aif your bool fat for bis,
you sail liave.bifstek to morrow, certain
merit, begar!’’
“ Never you mind,” replied Brauss,
“ about the bull being fat enough for
steak; if you’ll only kik"him, I’ll Lave
him cooked. But you must do the tbiug
scientifically. I’ll make th.e niggers
build you a bull-ring: a rough spear
head can be made at the Blacksmith’s
shop—and then we’ll see!”
“Ha! ha! Monsieur, you sail see!
Zat you shall! You leettle dam bool I
vilfcut him up for vat you chll leettle
piece. Ha !” he continued with a tri
umphant gesture of his hand—“ha!
come aliaid, Monsieur leettle bool!”
“ Shouldn’t bo surprized,” remarked
Isaac, teosingly, “if the little bull broke
your nose.yet, Monsieur Crappy !”
“Nevair! nevair! Monsieur Brauss!
Ze dam leetel bool salFnevair braik my
noze—no nevair” —and Crappy rubbed
that organ, as if to be assured of rts’
presence and integrity—“ nevair, no ne
vair, Mons. Braass. It sail be me, Vic
tor Crapaud, vat sail Iqaik ze leetel bool
pon the noze, and ’pon de haid, and ’pou
ae tail! Begrar. I sail braik him all
ovair /”
Isaac forthwith put the negro boys
about the yard to building a rail-fence
enclosure, circular, and of about the size
of an ordinary circus ring. This took
but little time, Crappy was extremely
anxious to have the passage-at-arms be
tween the little bull—whom Isaac dub
bed Napoleon —and himself, to come off
immediately. But Isaac, on one excuse
aud another, deferred the fight to the
succeeding Saturday, at which time he
notified all his neighbors to bo present to
see the sport.
Saturday came. So did tlie neigh
bors. The little bull (not far advanced
beyound calf-hood, and sporting a pair
of horns not more than six inches in
length,) was safely ringed. Napoleon
had a few ribbons floating from his lit
tle horns, and a small thoin bush de
pended from his tail, which, as lie switch
ed that valuable appondage, irritated bis
sides and increased bis ill-tompcr. lie
looked quite savagely at Crapaud, as
that individual, astride of Bob, (whose
tail was docked so short that every one
wondered why the operator left any tail,
at all,) rod up to tho slip-gap of the rude
arena. Crappy cut quite a grotesque
appearance. He had on a pair of very
light yellow breeches, too short for him:
in the absence of coat and vest, he spor
ted an old red sash which had done ser
vice in Isaac’s military days, and from
his neck, wrists and knees, floated many
ribbon ends which had been contributed
from tho finery of tho house servants*
“PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.”
The neighbors were gathered in groups,
or sat astraddle of the rails which made
the enclosure. Little niggers, and big,
women and men, showed the ivory ot
their mouths in delighted anticipation oi
the sport ahead.
Isaac bustled about until every thing
was ready, and then gave the word to
let down the gap. Bob bore Crappt
within the arena with a mincing step, I
such as Indian ponies much affect when
disagreeing with their riders as to the
course of travel. He had no idea of
what was in reserve for him; by
the way, we must explain hore, tlrat Bob
had a holy horror of spurs. lie was
wont to perforin the most grotesque feats,
when touched with those appliances.—
Knowing this peculiarity, Isaac had
armed the heels of the Crappy with a
pair of the hugest and crudest Mexican
“persuaders,” cautioning him the while,
by no means to use them until the mo
ment he proposed to make some tremend
ous phargeupon the bull. Thus advised,
Monsieur rode with his heels well out ;
and with his extemporaneous spear in one
hand, Isaac’s ponderous meatcleaver and
the reins in the other, he was rather a
funnylooking chevalier, at the very best.
Monsieur Craypaud attained the cen
tre of the ring. The bull faced him fiom
a fence corner opposite the slip-gap.—
Rising in his stirrups, with a flourish of
his spear, in enthusiastic tones, he shou
ted vive la belle France! Prcrez garde,
Monsieur Bool! Whites and negroes,
with one accord, sent up a wild whoop
at these words; the bull shook his head
and prepared for an attack. But as
Crappy came down into the seat of his
saddle, both heels were driven violently
into the pony’s sides. With a sudden
squat, Bob made Crappy’s stirrups touch
the ground ; then curving himself so as
to able to bite at the offending heels, be
commenced a series of twistir.gs-round,
cat-fashion, with a squat to the ground
every five seconds: Crappy, confuted,
kept the persuaders buried in the pony’s
sides, thereby maintaining bis seat, and
round and round, and round and round,
they went, sash .and ribbons streaming
in the artificial breeze —the spectators
yelling, screaming, roaring with fFantie
delight. On a sudden impulse, Bob
changed his tactics entirely, and tucking
down his little stopper of a tail so close
that he seemed to be without the caudal
ornament entirely, he begen to kick up
with a rapidity that defied the eye to
number the elevations and depressions.
“ Sacre!” gruudted Crappy. “ DiaLle !
Mons. Brauss, ze dam pony” -
Poor Crappy’s appeal was cut short.,
by his flying over Bob’s head, streamers
all standing out; still ho gallantly re
tained his weapons. As he rose, he
turned to hurla meledictiou at the crowd
whose merrimeut at his rocket-like flight
through the air was perfectly unbound
ed, but before he had time to utter* an
oath, lie. discovered the bull (who evi
dently thought his time had now come,)
-plunging terrifically at him. Crappy
received him manfully ; struck his spear
at him with one hand and chopped at
his nose with the cleaver in the other, as
young Taurus rushed upon him. But
the Bull had too much mometum to stop,
and therefore tilted Crappy head over
heels, and only brought himself up in an
opposite corner of the fence. Fortunate
ly, Monsieur was little hurt, and brave
ly facing the bull, which bad commenc
ed pawing and ““ moo-00-ing” for a sec
ond demonstration, he began addressing
him,
“ Come on, Monsieur dirty leetel
Bool! Come oh! garcon, I sail make
bifstek”
Again the bull started, but at the same
moment there dallied in a very small
flee, (the property of one of the negroes,)
and reaching Crappy a second before
the bull he seized the unfortunate French
man by the leg, with the fury of Lire Lion
of the Desert. Crappy, fearless of bulls,
big and little, regardless of all danger in
the sbape of beligerent human, this same
Crappy yielded to the valor of a shArp
nosed flee, and throwing down his weap
ons, ingloriously began to flee, with an
expression of terror so ludicrous on his
face, that the assembly shrieked, and
shrieked again, in convulsions of mirth.
But the bull was not to be balked of his
prey thus; as Crappy fled with “Nip,”
the fice, adhering to his leg, Napoleon
charged homo upon him, prostrating
him in a comer of the enclosure very near
where Isaac stood. Two or three tre
mendous butts upon Crappy’s back and
lower down, with a savage attempt to
gore, (which resulted only in the up-rip
ping of one breeches-leg,) were given be
fore Isaac and two or three negroes, tak
ing hold of the rails near the ground, at
the point of over-lapping, raised them up
sufficiently to make a crevico largo e
nough for Crappy’s escape. As the
Frenchman was straggling through this,
his person quite naturally presented a
convexity posteriorly, and at this Napo
leon “let drive,” with all tho energy
of a “ last lick,” driving Crappy “ thro’
and thro’,” with one shin badly raked
and his nasal feature badly contused !
Heroat the miscellaneous crowd once
moro testified their delight by prolong
ed cheers, during which Crappy got up,
and with one hand on the spot where
the bull last hit him as lie came thro’,
aud tho other tenderly placed upon his
nose, he looked daggers at tho bystan
ders.
“ How’s this, Monseur Crapaud ?” ask
ed Brauss with much gravity; “you
promised to make bifstek of’ my little
bull, and here in live minutes he butts
you thro’ a crack of the fence, as if you
were a cur puppy !”
“ Sair!” exclaimed the irate Crappy
—“sair ! Mons Brauss ! I have meet
vour dam leetel Bocl, like ungentilhom
rne ! I have fight him”—here Crappy
swelled and struck his breast with his
I have. fi<jht him for zehonneur
of la belle France ! Your dam leetel
horse, wiz no tail, hav fall, me ovair
bees head! Aha 1 vair good ! Steel I’
fight for la belle France! Zen ven I
maik ready to give ze leetel bool ze
grande coup , vat sail come —eh! Vy”
—here his expression of disgust was in
describable —“vy, von dam leetel fais
dog, ya ! ya! ya ! and bite me ’pon de
heel of my laig! Zen, I loos my morale
cooraz —zen 1 seize vat you call —eh ?
von dam panique !—zen I fight no more
for la belle France f Aha ! Monsieur
Brauss, Victor is no dam Yankee to
fight ven he hav looz his morale cooraz ,
viz ze leetel fais dog ’pon his heel, and
ze grande panique shaik him all ovair!
No! no ! Monsieur Brauss!”
The crowd voted that Crappy’s excuse
was a perfectly good one, and they, fur
ther, appointed a day when he should
meet his opponent, Napoleon, with bet
ter security for fair play ; but when the
time arrived tho’ Napoleon bellowed
eagerly for the fray, the representative
of la belle France was no where to be
found. “Nip,” the fice, died mysteri
ously the night before Crappy departed
from the hospitable roof of Isaac Brauss.
jffodeiri) flrogtiw? isl tye ftcDicqS £lro
fei 00.
The public have latterly had presen
ted to them rather a novel feature in the
journalism of the day, in the shape of
elaborate scientific treatises on medical
subjects appearing in consecutive chap
ters iu the advertising and news columns
of the daily and weekly newspapers of
this city. These articles are from the
pen of Dr. Hunter, No, B'2B Broadway,
the -well known practitioner in pulmona
ry and bronchial diseases, and are distin
guished from the empyrical programmes
usually put forth through the same me
dium, by their thorough acquaintance
with the subjects-treated of, the simplic
ity and clearness of their language, and
tho demonstrative force of the arguments
employed.
With these qualities to recommend
them to our attention, we cannot but
welcome the appearance of these articles
as heralding an important and beneficial
revolution in tho traditions practice of
themedieal profession. There is no pur
suit in which the spirit of old fogyjsm
has, in spite of the enlightenment of the
age, managed more completely to tram
mel and subdue the human intellect. —
With a view to unity, like the Roman
Catholic Church, it maintains its hold
upon the almost superstitions awe and
reverence of ignorant and unreasoning
minds, by involving the little of truth
that it possesses in technical phraseolo
gy, derived from classical souces, and
consequently incomprehensible to the
multitude.
But few men belonging to the craft—
for such more correctly may be designa
ted the medical profession —have had
courage to emancipate themselves from
the code of conventional as well as col
legiate regulations which has been built
up for its protection. Like the novitiate
of the Egypt ain priesthood, its mysteries
ami its privileges could only become ac
cessible by a prescribed track, and after
a long, and often painful probation.—
There has been hitherto no short cut to
professional success and fame rocognised
within its canons. Any man departing
from the beaten ro .and laid down for his
guidance has been invariably treated as
an outcast, and stigmatised as a quack.
The result has been, that whilst the med
ical profession has been reduced to a
close monopoly, it has extended but lit
tle its sphere of knowledge, and conse
quently conferred less benefits upon- the
human race than it might other wise
have done.
One of the harriers by which the pro
fession has endeavored to fence itself
around, has been prohibition or discour
agement held out to all attempts on the
part of its members to enter into direct
communication with the public. A med
ical man may address himselt through
tho medium of a book, and under tho
cover of technicalities to his own profes
sion, but he must not appeal to the com
mon sense and natural intelligence of tho
uninitiated members of the community,
lest the arcana of the healing art should
cease to be, like tho Eleusynian myste
ries, an exclusive and profitable posses
sion. Tho effect of this jealous and nar
row minded system on phiWdth topic and
high spirited men may readily bo con
ceived. They have had to chafe in si
lent indignation under restraints, the di
rect bearing of which has been to pro
tect the privileges of the senior members
of the profession, and keep down and dis
courage as much as possible all evidence
of rising talent.
Wo are rejoiced to find that one man,
and that a praetionor, whose professional
merits and skill cannot for a moment ho
questioned, has had tho moral courage
to break through the trammels imposed
upon him by tho old routine of his art.
TWO DOEEAIIS a-ye ah, in advance.
Dr. Hunter wisely, and in time, arrived
at the conclusion that if such acquire
ments as he possessed were worth any
thing, the more extensive tho circulation
he gave to the results of liis researches
and experience the greater the benefits
he would not only confer upon himscit
but upon the community. Between the
limited publicity afforded him by the
usual professional resource of book pub
lication and that offered by the nevaepa
pers it is not surprising that he chose
the latter. It presented the advantages
of rapidity, conprehensiveness and pop
ularity 7; objects which to a man ambi
tions of fame in bis profession, were the
readiest and surest elements of success.
We have had personal experience of
the happy results of the Doctor’s mode of
treatment, and can vouch for its success, j
Owing to the severe drudgery incident j
to our pursuits; and that tendency to j
bronchial diseases with which the pecu- j
liarity of our climate afflicts such a large |
proportion of our population, we have
been suffering for several years past from
a throat affection, which all the medi
cal remedies that we bad formerly ap
plied failed to cure. We can truly say
that we have found moro relief and grea-1
ter .hope of ultimately getting rid of the]
malady from Dr. Hunter’s mode of tr< a‘-
rnent than from that of any other medi
cal man to whom we had previously sub
mitted our case.
The lesson afforded by tliis brief sketch
of Dr. Hunter’s career is calculated to be
useful to the medical profession. Here
is a man who, chained down by the con
ventional prejudices and usages of his
rtiedical brethren, might have toiled on
for half his life without- arriving at the
results to which his acquirements entitled
him to aspire. It cost him an effort of
moral courage, and no doubt a saerifice
of some professional pride, to emancipate
himself from the thraldom of associations
in which they bound him. By having
sufficient independence of character to
shake loose these ties, and devote bis tal
ents to the general good of the commu
nity, ho has, within an unprecedentedly
short space of time, won the highest
prizes within the reach .of a medical
practitioner.*
The Canvass in other States.
Whilst endeavoring to defend to the
extent of our ability, the principles of
civil anti religious liberty in Georgia,
we feel a deep interest in the result of
the elections in those States in which
our friends as engaged in* doing battle
in the same great cause. We, there-1
fore, watch oqr exchanges daily in or
der to learn the movements of men and
parties. All o\jr readers will share,
more or less, with us in this feeling,
and we accordingly propose to notice
the conduct of our friends in several sec
tions. In North Carolina the contest
is waxing very warm. Democrats and
Whigs are side by ‘side and shoulder
to shoulder, battling against the secret
enemies of our free institutions. The
Hon, J. A. Caldwell, a distinguished
Whig; lias written a letter of great abili
ty, urging the people, forgetful of past
party distinction, to unite in crushing
Know Notliingism and pledging liis sup
port to the Democratic candidate for Con
gress. He concludes his letter by say
ing, that lie wo id vote for Mr. Craige, a ,
Democrat witli as much pleasure, as lie
would for Mr. Kerr, were he citizen of
the District of the latter.
We find a like zeal manifested by (lie
people ot Alabama, but especially in the
Southern part of the State.
The Mobile district., Alabama, was
represented in the lust Congress, bv a
gentleman of uncommon ability, Col.
Phillips. We, therefore, have some
anxiety to know, as lie has declined a
nomination who will be his successor.—
The Democrat eandidade, is James A.
Stallworth, and his Know Nothing op
ponent is Col. Percey, Walker former
ly an ultra States Rights Democrat.—
The accomplished ed'tor of the Mobile
Register, John Forsyth, has been recrea
ting by travelling through the District,
and he.writes the most encouraging let
ters to his paper. It is really refreshing
to read a letter from the pen of John
Forsyth. We have just concluded one
of liis elegant epistles, in which he gives
an account of a discussion between the
candiates, both of whom arc men ot ac
knowledged ability. “At every step,
says he, Col. Walker deyelopes in the
clearest manner his own convictions of
the rottenness of his catiso. His con
stant labor is to claw off from tho real
principles of the party which ho repre
sents. He repudiates the religious intol
erance, the unmanly warfare on natural
ized citiziens, and the secret features of
his Order. But unhappy for him, those
are tho principles of Know Nothingism
—they stick to him like the shirt of
Nessus, and he cannot tear it off. Col.
Stallworth compels him to wear it. Tlio
Know Nothing candidate loatlis the gar
ment, but he voluntarily assumed it and
will fret Kim to the end. Hi - restive ness
under it only furnishes an argument with
which to confound him. ’
Again he says, “there is no mistaking
the indications, wherever I have been,
of tho docay of this vicious aud ephemer
al ism. f
dSTO. 24.
In this county ( Wilcox) the Order has
died out. Two hundred have left it, and
the residue of the lodge have given up
the contest in despair. The Democrats
are up to fever heat here. Tho candi
dates for the legislature have met Mr.
Sam Slick, and have riddled him before
the people. . This county will give Stall
worth 2,30 majority. I hear the same
good news from Marengo. Sam hangs
hi* head there. Stallworth will come
to Mobile with a thumping majority.”
Mr. Forsyth thus gracefully alludes to
the fact, “that Col. Walker was a Demo
cratic member of the last legwftture.—
“ I fervently hope to see, and shall cheer
fully labor to accomplish the defeat of a
man who, at this moment, the candidate
and leader of a party hostile to the Dem
ocracy, is at the same time a member of
the legislature to which he was elected
! as the nominated Democratic candidate,
j and by Democratic voters. In the af
! fairs of politics, as well in the courts of
Venus, it is generally considered decorous
“ to be off with the old love before being
on with the new,” but my friends, Col.
Walker, could not wait to get out of the
Democratic services before he thirsted
for office in the ranks of its^enemies.” —
Col. Walker is like the Know Nothing
candidate for Governor in Alabama, who
retains, his office as Circuit Judge, de
termined, if he cannot be a Governor, to
continue at least a Judge. Both of them
are very much disgusted with the “ hunt
after office.” In Mississippi, Gov. Mc-
Rae has already commenced the canvass,
and has made a long list of appointments.
In Louisiana, the Know Nothings havo
repudiated the Philadelphia platform,
and form new a separate organization to
all intents and purposses. The Demo
crats in this State have put forth a very
strong ticket, and one which will cer
tainly achieve a triumphant victory. In
Tennessee, Johnson and Gentry canvass
the State together, and all accounts
which reach us of their discussions, are
calculated to raise our confidence in tho
Democratic standard bearer. In Ken-*
tucky, Democrats and Whigs are work
ing nobly together, to preserve, unim
paired, the principles of political and re
ligious freedom, which Clay held in com
mon with all the great leaders of tho
Democracy.
The whole country rebels at tho idea
of submitting to a parly which advocates
political proscription and religious ty
ranny. The cause in which we are en
gaged is the cause of truth and will ev
erv where, where beat American hearts,
finally obtain a complete and overwhelm
ing triumph.— Constitutionalist & Re
public.
From the Albany Atlas.
The Crusade Extending.—Assault on
the Methodists.
We have noticed the movements of tho
know nothings of New Jersey against tho
Methodists, and the public meeting held in
New York to denounce them. It appears
that a Mr. Graves is out in a volume having
the same object—called, The Iron wheel, or
Republicanism Backward, and Christianity
Reversed.” A writer in the Cortland Demo
crat quotes some specimens of the vindictivo
work :
, Methodism cannot be justly called a
church of Christ.’ . Methodism a human
invention—is the grand-daugbter of Rome—
the grandchild of the man of sin, and son'of
perdition ; the church cannot fellowship it.’
Tim tirst chapter of the Discipline wholly
untrue:'’ * Methodism without either alter
!or divinity—its members are preachers all
unconverted.’ . Methodism the Popery of
Protestantism,’ &c. .The doctrine of tho
power of tho keys held by the Methodist
clergy in common with tho Pope* Thirty
untruths taught in the baptism of one in
fant.’
<. Masonry has equal—yea, far superior
claims than Methodism to assume the titlo
and demand the regard a fid consideration of
a church of Christ.’ < It. is a society set on
foot by a man, not professing the slightest
conformity to the word of God.’ IV hat ia
such a society but a great rival and antago
nistic institution to the church set up tho
God of ileaven V ”
„ . The Methodist system is death to all
the institutions for which Washington fought
and freemen died.’ • All the Mfthodist
preachers in this country were tories and
yet he says again i Methodism i* only sixty
eight years old ’ The Methodists are the
merest puppets ever wired or wovkeu by stra
tagem. Oh, my Country! how much is to
be feared for thy liberties from these ?’—
* The Methodism of the Discipline is naked
clerical despotism, and in essence Popery it
self, and the worst form of Popery !’—/o
sttiiism.’ A Methodist society is an inqui
sition, uot a church.’ 1 unhesitatingly
pronouuco it ANTI CHRIST.’ The preach
ers are • tyrants,*circuit riders, soandal
mongers,’ * hypocrites and deceivers.’
But the writer docs not stop hero. Other
denominations come iu for a share of his pro
scription. lie says .< this woman (Popery) is
oftltalthe mother of harlots and abomination.
Who are the daughters ? The Lutheran, the
Presbyterian and the Episcopalian branches
of the (Roman) Catholic,” &o. <> Are not
theso denominated .harlots and abomina
tions’ in the above passage ? Iso decide. —
1 could not with the stake beforo me decido
otherwise.” u Presbyterians and Episcopa
lians composo a part of Babylon.” ** They
hold the distinctive principles of Papacy in
common with Papists.” Tho spirit of relig
ious intolerance, onco loosed, nover sates of
its victims. It is all-devouring and inap*
pcasable.