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About The Democrat. (Columbus, Ga.) 1830-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1831)
COS.i'l EMHI BARTLETT- EDITOR. I? published every week in Columbus, Mus cogee County , Georgia, bv it. 2a. iJnrtlctt Sc At. .siattcr, at Tlireo Dollars per annum if paid i n advance or Fear Dollars at the end of the year ft is expected that all application for subscription from a distance will be accompanied with the money, Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rates Sales of land and negroes, hy adminis trators, executors >r guardians, are required bv law to be held on the first tueedav in the month bo ’ een tlie hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon 4- 3 in the afterno n, at the court house of the eoontv in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public Gazette six * days previous to the dav of sale. Notice of the sale o*' personal property must be -rivet in a like manner forty days previous t - the day of sale N 'tire to debtors &. croditors of sn estate must be published forty days Notice that all application will be made to the court of ordinar for leave to sell land must be puolisb -dfiur months. ti r e are authorised to announce JOHN VI. PATRICK as a candidate for f’ax Collect*). of M i cogee county, at the ensuing January elec tion ™ ’ f) - tde (t/ a> M'eaie i.uthon ed t announce G YV. DILL! A R!) as a candidate for Clerk ofthe Sup erior < ourt of Vluscogeo countv, at the next Jan uary election Fob 1> tde SUG.IR Cim inniinai c * v lavt-* «»•«»!•, P • » * "v V ' " »at tnv Plan'ation near Oo h'libus. S. M INGCRSOLL Febnary 26,1831. 20 ts OHIO REFOR HEI) fßcMcal CTclifoe WORTHINGTOX. BA , and with the consent of the Reformed Medical Society, of the United Stales, the new Reformed Medical Institution has been lo coted in Worthington, an interesting and flour ishing town on the Whetstone River, 8 miles north of Columbus, on the Nor hern Turnpike This cite has been chosen because it present? the gieatt’s' advantages to facilitate the re oarches of the Botanical s udent; the country areund it a bouiiAig with every variety of nedical plants ; and the situation being t!u moat healthy $-de hg’ttfnl in lhe Wesleui country—and because the occupancy ofthe large College ivlifice, to gether with ground < fovorv variety of soil for an extensive botantual gurd- n. hes been presented tons b, the board of trustees of Worthington College. There will be attached to the institution, a Dispensary for analyzing and preparing Verita ble vied,cines; and an Inliniiary, where persons from the neighhourhourhood, or a distance la boring under fevers, -m u nnsions, dispepsia, liver complaints, gravel, u. -ere. fistulas,cancers, A’ l -Ac will be successfully treated, without blceiti ig, mercury or the knife, and from which the student will .icqnire a correct knowledge of the nature, operation and superior eiHcacy of ve getable agents in removing disease. The necessit y for an institution of this kind in the west, t 'ba under the lireclion of competent Professors is strikingly evident It isinstitu tion that is dorigiio to concentrate, ,V dtsse i inate ail the knowledge of Doctors of Medicine and empirics, rages and savages ; and that will domonstra'e to the student and thosick that ve getables alone afford ill-- only rational, safe and effectual means of removing diseases without impairing the constitution, nr endangering life or limb The present system of pi act ice which trents diseases of every fin in with inetalic min erals, .lie lancet or knife is dangerous inefficient the lamentable facts which every day presents too fully illustrate. Nor is this truth more clearly exhibited than the fact that vegetable substances alono, are void of danger, aud powerfu l)' effi cient when administered; a reference to the suc cess of our New-York lnfii miry, and the surces of ignorant botanical phiysicians, proves this fact Tha College .nil Uifirmary will bo opened the first week in December, where students from all parts mav enter and complete their Medical Lid - scatioti, A wlier 1 persons laboring under every species or disease shall receive prompt A faith ful attention The course of study to be pursued, and which will be taught according to the ODD and HE TGRMEI) sy terns bv Lectures, Recitations, Fxaminations and soiiable text books is. Ist A- Datoiny and Pliisiology id. Old mid Reformed SSuigerv. lid. Theory A Practice of Medicine 4th The eld fy i uproved system of Midwifery, with tiro diseases of women and children. sth Materia Medida with practical and general Bo tany. Oth Medical and Botanical Chemistry and Poarmacy- 7. Staled Lectures on collateral icci «nce—Moral and Mental Philosophy—Phrenol ogy—Medical Jurisprudence—Comparative A liatomy—Medical History, Ac. By attending this Institution, the student will acquire a correct Unowe ledge of present prac tice of physicians—a knowledge of the use and abuse of minerals, tile l ancet, 1 ibsterieal For ceps a id the knife, and a knowledge of the new and improved system, that supercedes their use, w ith tenfold more safety and suecs-s. There will be no specified time to complete s course of •Midy; whenever the student is qulificd he may graduate and receive a 1 iiploma—some will pass in o e year, others will require more. Requisitions for dmission. 1 A certifies e of good moral character 2 Good English education Terms —Till price of qualifying a person t pnc'ice, including a Diploma, and access to all thu advantages ot the institution will be $ 15 J in advance, ot $75 in advance, A $ 100 at the e.lose c‘ his studies. Every advantage given, and some allowance made to th se in the indigent circmn Stances, Board will be had at $1 per week, and v :i oks at the Western city prices Every student onentcring Uorthington Col V'ge will become an honorary member of the re formed .Medical Socioty of tile United States fcoin whom lie will receive a diploma, and anon ®| Report of ab the doings and discoveries of its different members. A he entitled to a! 1 its con •titutional privilegs and benefits. Th osc wishing further information will please address a otter (post paid) to Col G H Grisweld of the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt attention Students and others had b"*ter beware of the glandeis of the present pliysi. * us. who know no n re about our institution, than they do about Botanical medicine J. J SIEFT.E, President. Worthington, O. Oct. 28:50. Ante,. — I ditors publishing the above Circular 52 tunes, shall receive as compensation a cer tificate entitling the bearer to tuition gratis, or an equivalent to tint sum ($150) in medicine advice or attendance from us or anv members of our society. Those publishing it 20 times, to ka'nhut compensation. January 2t'—— )7 liMiUMBI S, {>S:O2S<JSA, SIH KDAY, STARCH i^3l. MISCELLANEOUS. From File idship’s < itteruer. THE COUSINS. BY MISS MITFORD. Towards the middle of the principal street m my native town of Cranley, stands or did stand, fori speak of things that happened many years back, a very long tronted, very regular, very ugly brick house, whose large graveled court flank ed on each side by offices reaching to the street, was divided from the pavement bv irou gates and palisades, and a row of Lombardy poplars, rearing their slender columns so as to veil, w.fout shading, a mansion which evidently considered itself, and was considered by its neighbors, as holding the first rank in the place. That mansion, indisputably the best in the town, belonged, of course, to the lawyer; and that lawyer was, as may not unfre quently be found in small places, one of the most eminent solie tors in the country. Richard Molesworth, the individual in question, was a person obscurely hm-.i, and slenderly educated,*who by dint of prudence, industry, integrity, tact, and luck, had risen through the various gra dations of writing clerk, managing clerk, and junior partner, to be himself the head of a great office, and a man of no small property or slight importance. Half of Cranley belonged to him, for he had the passion for brick and niorter often observ ed amongst those who have accumulated large fortunes in totally defferent pursuits, and liked nothing better than running up rows and terraces, repairmg v ill is, and rebuilding farm houses. The better half of Cranley called him master, to say no thing of six or seven snug farms in the neighborhood, of the goodly estate and manor of Hinton, famous for its preserves and fisheries, or of a command of (loaf ing capital which borrowers, who came to him with good security in their hands, found almost inexhaustible. In short, he was one of those men with whom every thing had prospered through life; and in spite of a profession too often ob- noxious to an unjust, because a sweening prejudice, there was a prettv universal feeling amongs -ill who knew him that his prosperity was deserved. A kind temper, a moderate use of power and influence, a splendid hospitality, and that jiid : cious liberality which shews itself in smell *dMi«g 8 as well as great ones (for it is by two penny savings that men get an ill name,) served to insure bis popularity with h*<rh and low. Perhaps even h ; s tall, erect, portlv figure, his good humored counte nance, cheerful voice, and frank address, contributed something- to bis reputation: bis remarkable want of pretention or as sumption of anv sort ccrtoiidv did, and ns certainly the absence of every thing strik ing, clever, or or ginal in his conversation. That he must he a man of personal as well as of professional ability, no one tra cing his progress through life could fora moment doubt: hut reversing the witty ep igram on our wittiest monarch, he reserved his wisdom for his actions, and whilst all that he did showed the most admirable sense and judgment, he never said a word that rose above the merest common place, vapid, inoffensive, dull, and safe. So accomplished, l>oth in what he was and in what he was not, oar lawyer, at the time of which we write, had been for tna nv years the oracle of the country gentle men held all pnhlicoffie.es not inconsistent with each other, which their patronage could besto-w, and in the shape of steward ships, trusts, and agencies, managed half the landed estates in the country. He was even admitted into visiting intercourse, on a footing of equality very uncommon in the aristocratic circles of country society—a society which is, for the most part quite as exclusive as that of London though in a different way. For this he was well suit ed, not merely bv his own unaffected manners, high animal spirits, and nicety of tact, but by the circumstances of his domestic arrangements. After having been twice married, Mr. Molesworth found himself at nearly sixty, a second time a widower. His first wife had been a homely, frugal, managing woman, whose few hundred pounds and her saving habits had, at that period of his life, for they were early uni ted, conducted in their several ways to benefit her equally thrifty but far more as piring husband. She never had a child; and, after doing him all possible good in her lifetime, was so kind as to die just as his interest and his ambition required more liberal house-keeping, and higher connexion, each of which, as he well knew, would repay its cost. For connex ion accordingly he married, choosing the elegant though portionless sister of a poor baronet, by whom he had two daughters at intervals of seven years; the eldest be ing just of sufficient age to succeed her mother as mistress of the family, when she had the irreparable misfortune to lose the earliest, the tendercst, and the most inestimable friend that a young woman can have. Very precious was the memo ry of her dear mother to Agnes Moles worth! Although six years had passed between her death and the period at which our story begins, the affectionate daughter lmd never ceased to lament her loss. It was to his charming daughters that Mr. Molesworth*s pleasant house owed its chief attraction. Couciousof his own deficient education, no pains or money had been spared in gicomplishing them to the utmost height o! fashion. The least accomplished was, however, as not unfrequeiUiy happens, by far the most striking: and many a high-born and wealthy chant, disposed to put himself thoroughly at ease »t his solicitor’s table, and not at all shakea in his purpose by the sight of the pretty Jessy—a siiort, light, •■“ry girl, with a bsght sparkling counte nance, all blies, aid roses, and dimples, and smiles, sitting,exquisaley dressed, in an elegant morniuggown, with her guitar in her lap, her barf at her side, and her drawing table beftre her; has suddenly felt hunself awed nito h«s best and most respectful breeding, when introduced to her retiring butsi 1 -possessed elder sister, dressed with an almost m jtroniv sunplie.- tv, and evident!, lull, not of her own airs and graces, but of the modes t a.-id serious courtesy which beseemed her station as the youthful mistress of the i^use. Dignity, a mild and gentle but still a most striking dignity, was the pr me char acteristic of Agnco >lolesw#r:h in look and in mind, i ier beauty vasthe beauty j of sculpture, as eontradistiiguished from i that of painting; depending mainly on ! form and expression, and Ittle on colour. | There could hardly be a stitmger contrast tain existed between the marble purity of | her finely grained complaxion, the soft- I iiess of her deep grey eye, the calm com* I posure of her exquisitely moulded feat ures, and the rosy cheeki, the brilliant glances, and the playful animation of Jessy.—ln a word, Jessj was a pretty girl, and Agnes was a btautifu woman. Os these several facts both sisters were of course perfectly aware; Jessy, because every body told her so, and she must have been deaf to have escaped the knowledge; Agnes from some process equally certain, but less direct: for few would have ven tured to take the liberty of addressing a personal compliment to one evidently too proud to find pleasure in any thing so nearly resembling flattery, as praise. Few excepting her looking-glass and her father, had ever told A guess she was handsome, and yet she was as con sc;oas of her surpassing beauty as Jes sy of her sparkling prettiness; and per haps as a mere question of appearance and becomingness, there might have been as much coquetry in the severe simplicity of attire and of manner w hich distinguished one sister, as in the elaborate adornment : and innocent show ng off of the other. There was, however, between them ex actly such a real and internal difference of taste and character as the outward show served to indicate. Both were true, gen tle, good and kind; but the elder was as much loftier in mind as in stature, was full of high pursuits and noble purposes; had aba uloned drawing, from feeling herself dissatisfied with her own perform ances, as compared with the works of real artists; reserved her musical talent entirely for her domestic circle, because she put too much of soul into that delicious art to make it mere amusement; and was only saved from becoming a poetess, by her almost exclusive devotion to the very great in poetry; to Woodsworth, to Milton and to Shakespeare. These tastes she very wisely kept to herself; but they gave a higher and firmer tone to her character and manners ; and more than one peer, when seated at Mr. Moles worth’s hospitable table, has thought within himself how well his beautiful daughter would become a coronet. Marriage, however, seemed little in her thoughts. Once or twice, indeed, her kind lather had pressed on her brilliant establishments that had offered; but her sweet questions, “Are you tired of me 1” “ Do you wish me away?” had always gone straight to his heart, and had put aside for the moment the ambition of his nature even for this his favorite child. Os Jessy, with all her youthful attrac tion he had always been less proud, per haps less fond. Besides, her destiny he had long in his own mind considered as decided.—Charles Woodford, a poor re lation brought up by his kindness, and recently returned into his family from a great office in London, was the person on whom he had long ago fixed for the husband of his youngest daughter, and for the immediate partner and eventual successor to his great anil flourishing bu siness; a choice that seemed fully justified by the excellent conduct and remarkable talents of his orphan cousin and by the ap parently good understand anding mutal affection that subsisted between the you ng people. This arrangement was the more agree able to him, as providing munificiently for Jessy, it allowed him the priviledgeof making, as in lawyer phrase he used to boast, ‘an eldest son* of Agnes, who would by this marriage of her younger sister, be come one of the richest heiresses of the county. He had even in his own mind, elected her future spouse, in the person of a young baronet who had lately been much at the house, and in favor of whose expeted addresses (for the proposal had not yet been made; the gentleman had gone no farther than attentions) he had determined to exercise the paternal au thority which had so long lain dormant. But in the affairs of love, as of all o tliers, man is born to disappointment.— * L'homme propose et T)ieu dispose , is never truer than in the great matter of matrimo ny. So found |>oor Mr. Molesworth, who (Jessy having arrived at the age el eigh- teen, and Charles at that of two and twen ty) offered Ins pretty daughter and the lu crative partnership to Ins peuuyless rela tion, and was petrified with astonishment and indignation to find the connexion very respectfully, but very firmly declined* The young man was very much distressed and agitated; ‘he had the highest respect lor M.ss Jessy; hut he could not marry her—lie loved another!* And then he poured forth a confidence as unexpected as it was undesired by his incensed pat ron, wiio leit him in undimimshed wrath and increased perplexity. i ins interview had taken place imme d.itely alter breakfast; and when the eoidtreu e was ended, the provoked fa ther sought lus daughters, who, happily unconscious ot all that had occurred, were amusing themselves in their splendid conservatory; a scene always as becom ing a.i it is agreeable to youth and beauty. Jessy was flitting about like a butterfly u inougst the fragrant ora»«?*> »•**»— *«•» might geraniums; Agues standing under a superb fuschm hi at hung over a large mmole nasm, her form and attitude, her white dress, and the classical arrange ment of her dark hair, giving her the look of some nymph or naiad, a rare relic of Grecian art. Jessy was prattling gaily, as she wandered about, of a concert which they had attended the evening before at the county town. ‘I hate concerts!’ said the pretty little flirt. ‘To sit boh upright on a hard bench for four hours, between the same four peo ple, without the possibility of moving or ot speaking to any body, or of any body’s getting to us! Oh! how tiresome it is !’ ‘1 sa,w Sir Edmund trying to slide thro’ the crowd to reach you,’ said Agnes a lit tle archly; ‘h;s presence would perhaps have mitigated the evil, but the barricade was too complete; he was forced to re treat, without accomplishing his object.* ‘ Yes, I assure you, he thought it very tire some ; he told me so when we were com ing out. And then the music! Sir Ed mund says that he likes no music except my guitar, or a flute on the water: and I like none except your playing on the organ, and singing Handel on a Sunday evening, and Charles Woodford’s reading Milton and bits of Hamlet. ‘Doyou call that music?’ asked Agnes, laughing. ‘And yet,’ continued she, 4 it is most truely so, with his rich Pasta-like vo.ee, and his fine sense of sound; and to you who do not greatly love poetry for ■ts own sake, it is doubtless a pleasure much resembling in kind that of hearing the most thrilling of melodies on the no blest of instruments. 1 myself have felt such a gratification in hearing that voice recite the verses of Homer or of Sophoc les in the ongnal Greek. Charles Wood ford’s reading is music.’ ‘lt is a music which you are neither of you likely to hear again,’ interrupted Mr. Molesworth, advancing suddenly towards them: for he has been ungrateful, and I have discarded him.’ Agues stood as if petrified; ‘Ungrate ful! oh father!’ ‘You cant have discarded him, to be sure, papa, said Jessy always good na tured! ‘poor Charles! what can he have done ? ‘Refused your hand, child, said the an gry parent; ‘refused to be my partner and son in law, and fallen in love with another lady! What have you to say for linn now ? ‘Why, really,’replied Jessy, ‘l’m inch more obliged to him for refusing my hand than to you for offering it, 1 like Charles very well for a cousin, but 1 should not like such a husband at all; so that if this refusal be the worst that has happened, there’s no great harm done.’ And oft’the gipsey ran; declaring that ‘ she must put on her habit, for she had promised to ride with Sir Edmund and his sister, and ex pected them every minute.’ The father and his favorite daughter remained in the conservatory. ‘ That heart is untouched, however,’ said Mr. Molesworth, looking after her with a smile. ‘Untouched by Charles Woodford, un doubtedly,’ replied Agnes, ‘but has he re ally refused my sister? ‘Absolutely.’ ‘And does he love another!’ ‘He says so, and I believe him.* ‘ls he loved again?’ ‘Did he tell the name of the lady?* ‘Yes.’ ‘Do you know her? ‘Yes.’ ‘ls she worthy of him ?’ ‘Most worthy of him ?’ ‘Has he any hope of gaining her affec tions ? Oh ! he must! he must! What woman could refuse him ?’ ‘ll eis determined not to try. The lady whom he loves is above him in every way ; and much as he has counteracted my wish es, it is an honorable part of Charles Woodford’s conduct, that he intends to leav e his affection unsuspected by its ob jeet.’ Here ensued a short pause in the dia lougue, during which Agnes appeared irvmg to occupy herself with collecting the blossoms of a Cape Jessamine and wa tering a favorite geranium; but it would not do: the subject was at her heart, and she could not force her mind to indifferent occupations. She returned to her father, who had been anxiously watching the va rying expression of her eouutenauc, and resumed the conversation. VOL,. 1.-VO. 2 J . ‘Father ! perhaps it is hardly maidenly to avow so much, but although you have never in set words told me your intent.on, I have yet seen and known, 1 can hardly tell how, all your too kind partiality to wards nu: lias designed for your children. You have mistaken me, dearest father, doubly mistaken me ; first in think ng me fit to fiiil a splendid place in society xt, in imagining that 1 desired such splen dor. You meant to give Jessy and the lucrative partnership to Charles Wood ford, and designed me and your large [*os sessiotis to our wealthy and titled neigh bour. And with some little change of persons these arrangements may for the most part bold good. Sir Edmund may still be your son-in-law and your heir, for he loves Jessy and Jessy loves hun.— Charles Woodford may still be your part ner and your adopted son for nothing has chanced that need dimmish your affection or lus merit. Many him to the woman he iv*>vo. one must in- Hin)>ii| ollß indeed, if she be not content with such a desti And let me liveon with you, dear rannrr, single and unwedded, with no tho’t but to contribute to your connort, to cheer and brighten your declining years. Do not let your too great fondness for me stand in the way of their happiness! Make me not so odious to them and to yourself, dear fa ther! Let me live always \vith you—fl u-ays your own poor Agnes !’ And blush ing at the earnestness with which she had spoken, she bent her head over the marble basin, whose waters reflected the fair im age as if she had really been the Grecian statue to which, whilst he listened, her fond father’s fancy had compared her:— Let me live single with you, and marry Charles to the woman w hom he loves.’ ‘Have you heard the name ofthe lady in question ? Have you formed any guess who she may be ?’ ‘Mot the slightest. I imagined from what you said that she was a stranger to an . Have I ever seen her?’ ‘You may see her —at least you may see her reflection in the water at th s very mo ment ; for he has had the infinite presump tion, the admirable good taste, to fall in love with his cousin Agnes!’ ‘Father!’ ‘And now mine own sweetest! do you still w ish to live single with me ?’ ‘Oh father! father ? ‘Or do you desire that I should marry Charles to the woman of his heart ?’ ‘Father! dear father ?’ ‘Choose my Agnes ! It shall be as vou command. Speak freely. Do not cling so around me, but speak !’ ‘Oh, my dear father! Cannot we all live together ? I cannot leave you. But poor Charles—surely, father, we may all live together!’ And so it was settled ; and a very few months proved that love had contrived better for Mr. Molesworth than he had done for himself. Jessy w ith her pretti ness and her title, and her fopperies, was the very thing to be vain of—the very thing to visit for a day; but Agnes and the cousin whose noble character and splen did talents so well deserved her, mad* the pride and the happiness ot hi home. Quick Replies — Napoleon was fond of quick replies; he could bear contradic tion, but invaribly turned aw ay from those who addressed him w ith hesitation or em barrasment. The following anecdote will sufficently prove that a ready, well timed answer w as an infallible passport to his favor. “At a grand review, which ou a particular occasion took place o: the square of the Carousal the Emperor’s horse suddenly reared, and during h:s ex ertions to keep his animal steady, the ri der parted company with his hat. A lieutenant having picked it up, and ad vanced in front of the line, and presented it to Napoleon. “Thank you, ( erptenn , said the Emperor still occupied in pat ting the neck of his horse. In what regi ment, Sire?” immediately demanded the officer. The emperor, looking attentive ly at his features, and perceiving his ow n mistake, replied, with a smile, “the ques tion is appropos:—in the Guards.” In a few days the newly appointed captain re ceived an official notification of the pro motion, for which he was indebted solely to his presence of mind, but which his bravery and h)ng serv ice had merited. In the Rutland Herald is a story that a “ Bay State Yankee” lately smuggled a lot of goods from Canada safely, by driv ing by the Custom House at full speed, at night, and when chased by the officer, af ter going two miles, turning and meeting him. The officer asked him if he hid seen a man w ith a load of goods; he re plied he had, halfa mile going one way, the smuggler turned upon another road, and journied at his ease. Quid Pro Quo. —The same lively lady was honoured with an invitation to dinner at a great house in the Strand, and th -e observed a noble Lord paying more than necessary attention to the March on, of L—,“l*ray, my Lord,” said she, “had you any share in making the lovely Machio ness’s turban?’, “No;” w as the reply of lug Lordship; “and allow me to ask, if you manufactued vour husband’s breeches as well as wear them?”. The Honourable I.ally was silent for the remainder of the evening.
