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March 4, 1831 2' ts
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WORTHINGTON.
J and with lie consent of the Reformed
' Medical Soeioty, of the United States, the
new Reformed Medical Institution has been lo
cated in Wnrthiugton, an interesting and flour
ishing town on the Who's tone River, 8 miles
nor'h of C •fl-V'bu*. on the Northern Turnpike
This cite ha been chosen because it presents the
grea'es'advantages to facilitate there catches
of the Botanical s udent; rhe country around.it a
bomdiurr vith cvcrv variety of medical plants ;
and the situation being the most healthy de
lighted in Ihe Western country—and because
the occupancy of the large College Edifice, to
gether with ground < feverv variety of soil for an
extensive bofantual gtrrden. has boon presented
to us hv the board of trustees of Worthington
College.
There will he attached to the institution, a
Dispensary for analyzing and preparing Verita
ble Medicines; and an Infirmary, where persons
fbom tho neighbourhood, or a distance la
boring under fevers, 'onsumpsions, dispepsia.
liver complaints, gravel, ulcers,fistulas,cancers.
•It Ac will be successfully treated, without
bleeding, mircury or the knife, and from which
the student will iicqoire a correct knowledge of
the nature, operation and superior efficacy of ve
getable agents in removing disease
Tho necessity for an institution of this kind in
tho west, to ha under the direction of competent
Professors is strikingly evident It is institu
tion that is designs to concentrate, A dissem
inate all the knowledge of Doctors of Medicine
and empyrics. sages and savages ; and that will
demonstrate to the student and the sick that ve
getables alone afford the only rational, safe and
effectual means of removing discasos without
impairing the constitution, or endangering life
Or limb Tho present system of practice which
tron's diseases of every f >-m with inetalic min
erals, he ln- eet or knife is dangerous inefficient
the lamentable facts which everv dav presents
too felly illustrate Nor is this truth more clearlv
exhibited than the fact that vegifable substances
alone, are void of danger,and pn-verfuiy effi
cientwhen administered; a reference to the sile
nces of nr Nmv-York InfirmMry and the success
of igu rant botanical phiysicians, proves this
fact.
The College a> and Infirmary will be opened the
ftr-t wo. k in December where students from all
pait« may enter and complete their Medical Ed
uca'ion. &. where persons laboring under every
specie or disease shall receive prompt & faith
fill attention
The cour»e of study to be pursued, and which
■will be taught according to the OEDand RE
FORMED sv terns b\ Lectures. Recitations.
Examinations and suitable text books is. Ist A
natomy and Pliisiology. 2d. Old and Reformed
Surgery. 3d Theory A Practice of Medicine.
4th The old 4'improved system of Midwifery,
with 'he diseases of women and children, sth
Materia Medina with practical and general Bo
tanv (sth Medical and Botanical t'hemisirv and
P-armacv- 7. Stated Lectures on collateral Sei
•nee—Moral and Mental Philosophy—Phrenol
ogy -Medical Jurisprudence—Comparative A-
Datomy—Medical History, Ac
By attending this Institution, the student will
acquire a correct knmveledge of present prac
tice of physicians -a knowledge of the use and
those of minerals, the Lancet, Obsterical For
ceps and tho knife, and a knowledge of the new
tnd improved system, that supercedes their use,
with tenfold more safety and success. There
will be no specified time to complete a course of
•tody; whenever the student is qulified ho may
graduate and receive a Diploma—some will pass
in <r e year, others will require more
Requisitions for admission.
1 Ji certi'ica'e of good moral character 2
Oood English education
Terms —Tha price of qualifying a person t*>
practice, including a Diploma, and access to all
the advantages of the institution will be $l5O in
advance,or $75 in advance, A slooat the close
of bis studies. Every advantage given, and some
allowance made to th >se in the indigent circum
stances, Boaid will be had at $1 per-week, and
books at the Western city prices
Everv student on entering Worthington Col
lege will become an honorary member of the re
formed .Nodical Society of the United States
from whom he will receive a diploma, and annu
nl Report of all the doings and discoveries of its
different members, A lie entitled to all its con
stitutional privilege and benefits.
Those wishing further information will please
address a etier (post paid) to Col G H Grisweld
or the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt
attention.
Students and others had better beware of the
slanders of tho present physicians, who know no
xie re about our institution,than they do about
Botanical medicine
J. J SIEF.LE, President.
Worthington, O. Oct. 2830
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6- times, shall receive as compensation a cer
tificate entitling tho bearer to tuition gratis, or
an equivalent to that sum in medicine
advice or attendance from us or nnv member* of
* u f,‘:? c,etv Those publishing it 2‘i times, to
■Balt that compensation.
January 20— . yy
THIS
COLUMBIS, GEORGIA, BATI RDAY, IIIRCH 19,
POETRY,
From the Fo got. Vie No:. for 1831.
THE FALSE ONE.
I knew him not, — I sought him not,—
He was my father’s guest;
I gave him not one smile more kind
Thao those T gave the rest;
He set beside me at the board,
Tho choice was not my own,
But oh! I never heard a voice
With half so sweet a tone.
And at the dance again we met,
Again I was his choice,
Again I heard the gentle tone
Os that beguiling voice;
I sought him not—he lead me fourth
From all the fairest there,
And told me he had never seen
A face he thought so fair.
Oh! wherefore did he toll me this?
His praises made me vain;
And when ho left me, how I long’d
To hear that voice again;
I wo"dered why my old pursuits
Had lost, their wonted charm,
And why the path was dull, unless
I leant upon his arm.
Alas! T niigh* have guess’d the cause;
For what could make me shun
My parents’ cheerful dwelling place
To wander all alone?
And what could make me braid mv hair,
And study to improve
The form that he had deign’d to praise,—
What could it be—but love?
Oh! little knew I of the world,
And less of matt’s career;
I thought each smile was kindly meant,
Each word of piaise sincere,
His sweet voice spoke of endless love—
-1 listened and believed,
And little dreamt how oft before
That sweet voice had deceived.
He smiles upon another now,
And in the same sweet tone
He breathes to her those winning words
I once thought all my own
Oh! why is she so beautiful?
I cannot blatneber choice,
Nor can I doubt she will be won
By that beguiling voice.
Nl l.st'K I. L A ,\ KIH’S.
From the Groton Herald.
DESCRIPTION OF OUR BAND.
I’ll tell you how it was—all about it, it
was about three years ago, 1 guess, and
one day Isaiah Jewett popped his head
int i Joe’s blacksmiths’’ shop where I was,
and as soon as he clapped eyes upon me,
says he, Mister! and says I—what? and
then says he, rather slily, I’ve got a little
something to say to you—so out I stepped.
—Now you must know, I had a kind of
a knack of playing the flute—so says he,
after we got away from the shop, don’t
yon want to jine a band? right out in that
way, and you know it struck me all on
eend at once, to think that I could play
in a band, and I answered in a great hur
ry, right of hand. Yes, to be sure. Well
says he, you must come to Deacon Palsi
fer’s to night and meet the rest, and we’ll
talk about it. So off he went to stir up
the rest, as he said. Well when it comes
night, oil' I went, flute in the pocket, to
the old Deacon’s—waddling through the
snow two feet deep. It’s a smasher of a
road in the winter i’ll tell you—always
elarnally full of snow, and up to the dea
con’s was a good mile. But I got there
time enough, tho*—and after we all got
together, we commenced business. First,:
there was Isaiah Jewett and Tom—they j
played the clarionet. Ah! Isaiah was the \
fellow for that—why, you could hear him
of a still night, two miles any time. If
he’d been a minister he’d have banged the
contents out of the bible to some purpose.
—Tom’s noise was’nt half so loud, but
then what there was, was twice as bad—
so that just made up. Then there was
George Jones and Charles—George play
ed every thing, but to night he had a vio
lin—and Charles played the clarionet.
And then there was Harry Ingham, he
played the bass-viol, and Tom Gilbert
played a flute, and Bill Johnson played a
bass drum; —there’s the whole lot of’em.
Well, after we got there, we took astifl'
drink all round. They were none of your
cold water chaps I tell von, and then Isai
ah speechified us. I forgot all about, or
else I never remembered it—but he made
a powerful flourishing with his arms, and
once he hit Bill Johnson such n side-1
winder that it almost knocked the poor
fellows brains out, and so I suppose he
talked to the purpose; and so we voted
to form a band.—Then as Isaiah had
made a speech to us. and was chief mo
ver, and had called us “Gentlemen,” a
dozen times or more, we chose him Pre
sident—and then, faith they chose me
Secretary.
Now gentlemen said Isaiah, we’ll tune
if you ple:u»o. Then there was a mortal
time—every hotlv went to work—the cla
rionets squeaked and grunted like soina
ny dying (tigs; the fiddle squealed; ami
ibe bass-viol grumbled dreudfully; uud
every now you’d hear a thump
on the old bass drum. Oh, there was
terrible work for about ten minutes, and I
tried to help him out on my flute—l Plow
ed with all my might, if 1 did’nt there’s
none of me, that’s all; but faith 1 could’nt
hear myself. Well they got tired of puf
fing and scraping and thumping—then we
set to tuning in order; clarionets first of
course; so Isaiah squeaked out a note,
then Tom squeaked out another; Lord
they were a mile apart. Tom fixed his
reed and tried again; worse now—and
then Isaiah fixed his; but it would’nt do.
Isaiah where the duce are you sounding!
says I—you see I begun to get horrid
mud. Sounding, why lam sounding C.
’Tis the Black Sea, then, that you’re
sounding. I reckon, exclaimed George
Jones. Well says Tom, lam sounding
A.—and says I, sound A. both of you; so
that got ’em right directly. Then Charles
tried his hand at the business; we soon got
him rigged and George got up lus fiddle.
Then we had it hot and heavy—first he
tried A, then lie tried D, and soon, and
just us we got them fixed and was scra
ping two at once to see if they were fifths,
down comes the bridge with a tremen
dious smash! so he turns it up again, and
got the E string about a mile high, and
away she snaped! he began to grow ruc
tions and on with another string. And
then all at once there was another general
laughter; the string that held the tail
board on, gave way, and there was a fort
night’s job. So we left him fixing, and
fell on the old bass-viol, tooth and nail.—
Lord, how the old fellow grumbled—but
we soon got him in order, and then we
fixed the flutes. That was soon settled,
and so was the bass drum, and then we
had another set at the violin. Well, we
got her in tune at last, and then we set to
work on the inarch to Boston.
1 wish you could have seen us.—There
was Isaiah yelling away with all his
might at the air and making up the most
woful faces all the time, that ever I look
ed at in all my life. Then there was
George with ins mouth open for ail the
world like a frozen codfish, thumping Ins
foot on the floor and scraping away most
wofully; and as for myself—why, I {flow
ed like four men, and every breath was
like a tornado that went through my
flute with a vengeance, I tell you! my
cheeks were pufl'ed out and looked like
two swollen toads, and my eyes—every
Sunday night for more than three months
after, Peggy used to tell me that they look
ed as how they were about to fly out of my
head; and Peggy was a shrewd girl—she
knew a thing or two. But the noises were
worse; we got half through pretty well,
considering them at once Tom’s clario
net yelled out a wrong note, and it hap
pened to he a long one; so he kept pour
ing out without a bit of conscience.
Then the next thing we heard was Gil
bert’s flute clear up, Lord knew how high
I don’t belive Gdbert did; there it was
though, all alone. By and .by the tune
began to shade like a sail in the wind;
away went Isaiah straight ahead like a
tub in a snow storm, and the bass drum
thundered away right in the middle of
half bars. Tom Gilbert’s flute was whiz
zing away nobody knew where; and by
this time I had got tired out, and sat mum,
looking out for the thread of
Well, it got along at last, and then Isa
iah began again—then came the rest like
a flock of sheep over a stone wall—and
then, whack went a string of the old bass
viol; and that stopped the tune.—.lt was’nt
long fixing though; so we went at it again;
but in half a minute George bawled out,
there, stop won’t ye? my D is only a
fourth; and I took the chance and pro
posed tuning again. The warm room
had got the clarionets wofully out of tune
and it took along while to get them in a
gain, for every body’s ears were full of
bad sounds, and no room remained for
good ones.
I vow your clarionet is a foot higher
than mine, roared out Isaiah to Tom.
And so it is, said he, for I am a foot tall
er than you, ‘little hop o’ ray thumb.’
This was contemptuous behaviour to the
President, so we fined him—but it set
pretty much as a dose of epecac would; &
he kept a grumbling all the evening,
Well, at last we got fixed and took Wash
ington's march. Gads and fishes! how
Isaiah roared it out; the snow came off the
house in cart loads. George got tearing
inad too, and he made the old fiddle sing,
I tell you. As for me. I blowed my flute
as furious as ever, considering; but I don’t
know what sort of a noise I made; hang
me if I could hear it. I followed hard
after Isaiah though, for I thought I was
safest where there was most noise. But
we got through pretty well, as Isaiah said,
thumbing the old table; there says he, I
guess we did that pretty slick? I thought
so too but I did’nt so, tho’t they might be
too proud.
The next thing we tried was the Presi
dent's march, and away we went straight
ahead. The first thing we left behiud
was Charles’s clarionet, fast in the mud:
then Gilbert got struck; then Harry laid
down the bass-viol bow, and la gan to
scrateli his head, with a face as long as a
hoe handle; he looked for all the world
like Finn, what I saw in Boston last fall
i play Mawworn. Then I stopped, and
how the others roared her out! Isaiah
made up worse faces than ever, and puffed
! away till he ripped nil the buttons off Ins
I w aietcout u blowing.—Tom’s eyes stuck
out like a lobster’s and George’s arm went
up and down as if he was threshing wheat
in the Deacon's barn. That finished our
play for that night, and the Deacon says
lie ha’nt had a rat in his house since, like
enough I think. Ifvouwantto know a
nv thing more about our band, just let
Mr. Rogers know, and I am always at
hand and will tell you the whole story
next time—there are some terrible occur
rences to come vet, 1 tell you.
THE BQHON UPAS.
It is rather a singular phenomenon in
the economy of nature, that the island of
Java should produce at the same time the
Managosteen, the most mellow and lus
cious of fruits, and the deadly Upas, the
most malignant of poisons.—In the Jour
nal of a botanist, lately deceased, whom
Napoleon sent to Java in 1810, to make
collections of plants for the imperial
garden at St. Cloud, we find the supstance
of the following facts, which we present
to our readers.
The Bohon Upas is situated in a val
ley, watered by a rivulet, mid encom
passed by hills, at the distance of four
teen leagues from Batavia. The lulls
and mountains in its vicinage are entirely
barren and denuded, as no verdure can
vegetate where the breeze wafts the pesti
lential vapors that emit from the pestife
rous gum of the Upas. The French
botanist anxious on his return to France,
to be able to lay before the Emperor a
correct description of the Java tree, made
at the risk of ins life, a tour all around tins
dangerous spot, at about four leagues dis
tant from its deleterious influence, and in
every direction of his circuit he found ve
getation literally annihilated, and the as
pect of the country the most dismal and
dreary that could be imagined. Near the
easiest ascent to one of the hills, about
sixteen miles from the station of the tree,
tliere resided then an old Malayan priest,
whose oifice it was to prepare for eterni
ty the souls of those who, for different
crimes, were sent to procure the poison,
which is a commodity tiiat yields the na
tive government a considerable revenue.
The ]H)ison is a gum, which like the cam
phor issues from the bark. Malefactors
under tile sentence of death are the only
jHirsons vvlio are compelled to gather this
deadly and baleful gum. The ministers
ot the native sovereign provide them with
a tortoise shell box, m w Inch they are to
put the pestiferous gum. These devoted
criminals then go to the house of the old
priest, where they remain until the vvmd
blows in a favourable direction so as to
bear the effluvia from them. As soon as
the desired beeeze arises, the priest pre
pares them for their approaching late.
At the moment of departure, the priest
puts on them a leather eap, with two
glasses before their eyes, which comes
down to the breast. Thus equipjied they
proceed on a journey to that tatai ‘bourne’
from which but a few travellers return.
The old ecclesiastic assured our travel
ler, that during a residence of thirty years
oil this thoroughfare of death, he hud wit
nessed the departure to the Upas of more
than eight hundred unhappy beings out of
whom not more than thirty ever returned.
Those who escaped the dreadful influence
of the Upas, described it a middling sized
tree, decorated with branches of the most !
vivid verdure. It broods sullenly over a !
rivulet, as a landmark of vegetation, m |
the barren vale of a wilderness, over which
it waves its poisonous foliage.
While our traveller remained at the is
land of Java, he witnessed the following
horrid instance of the destructive power 1
of the Upas poison.—ln February 1810 j
he was present at the execution es twelve
of the Javanese King’s mistresses, who
were convicted of being faithless to his
bed.
The fair and interesting criminals were
led into the great court of the palace of
Soura Charta, where a judge passed the
sentence of death on them. After going
through many religious ceremonies, the
executioner stript their breasts, and then
chaining each of the hapless delinquents
to a post, he proceeded to make an mcis- j
ion on the bosom with a lance, poisoned
with Upas. The operation was perform
ed on them all in the space of two
minutes, and with such celerity did the
poison destroy the vital principles; that
these unfortunate women, the victims of a
savage, were all dead in less than a quar
ter of an hour!
‘Some time after their death* says our
traveller, their bodies were full of livid
spots, their faces swelled, the color of the
skin changed to a kind of blue, and their
eyes were completely spotted with yellow
lines.’ We believe that medical men es
timate the Upas as the most deadly of all
vegetable poisons. In times of war it is
the practice of Malayans to throw the
Upas gum into the springs and rivulets in
order to poison them. The other parts
of the island of Java are remarkably
healthy; prolific and rich in a soil that
produces an abundance of the finest fruits
such ns the cocon, palm, chaddoek, oran
ees, lemons, citrons, tamarinds, mangoes,
pine-apples, melons, jKjmegranates, figs
and the delicious mangosteen, esteemed
the best fruit of the east. The tree on
which it grows is extremely beautiful, and
gaily arrayed like the orange tree, in the
spangled vesture off uit and flowers.
Irish Shit id.
VOL. 1.-AO. 21*
From the Orleans County (X. F. )T>legr ph.
Sagacity ofa hog. —Au acquaintance
of ours related to us a few days since the
following instance of sagacity in a hog,
which* on account of its novelty, we think
worth publishing. Being in a barnyard
One morning some weeks ago, his atten
tion was attracted by an unusual noise
which proceeded from under a com crib,
and he was prompted by a curiosity to
examine into the cause of it. On look
ing under the crib he found a good sized
grunter busily engaged in procun
corn for his breakast, in a manner that
would have been creditable to the engi
nuity of any four-footed animal, and we
have even known some bipeds that wc
think would be puzzled to exhibit greater
powers of invention. The crib was raised
from the ground about three feet, so that
the hog was unable to reach it without
jumping with his fore legs some inches a*
hove his natural height. At each leap he
struck his head as violently as possible a
gainst the loose flooring, which brought
down shelled corn in considerable quanti
ties, and in this manner he perserved un
til a foil stomach, or a bruised head,
we are unable to say which, induced
him to desist.
We have frequently read almost incre
dible accounts of sagacity in other ani
mals, such as the elephant, horse dog,
<fcc. but we do not recollect that we have
ever hear of so bright a hog as the one
above alluded to. We advise the owner
to feed him bountifully on corn, the re
mainder of the winter, as a reward for
his enginuity.
Sir Walter Scott's adr cr to a young Author
He spoke of my pursuits and prospects
in life with interest and with feeling—of
my little attempts in verse and prose with
a knowledge that he had read them care
fully—offered to help me to such infor
mation as I should require, and even
mentioned a subject in which he thought
I could appear to advantage. “If yoo
try your hand on a story,” he observed,
“I would advise you to prepare a kind of
skeleton, and when you have pl ised
yourself with the line of narrative, you
may then leisurely cloathe it with flesh and
blood.” Some years afterwards I re
minded him of his advice. “Did voa
follow it?” he inquired. “1 tried,”l said;
but I had net gone far on the road till
some confounded Will-o-Wisp came in
and dazzled mv sight, so that I deviated
from the path and never found it again.**
“It is the same way with myself,” said he,
smiling, “I form my plan, and then I de
viate.” “Ay, ay,” I replied, “I understand
we both deviate—but you deviate into
excellence, and I into absurdity.”
Austin’s colony in Texas, is receiving
a great accession to its population from
the U. States. The last Louisiana Ad
vertiser remarks:—“The emigration to
Texas last season, was unparallelled.
Twelve or thirteen vessels were engaged
in the trade between that place and this,
all of which were crowded with emigrants;
in addition to this, numbers went by land.
This season it is estimated more than
five times as many will emigrate than
went last year: several vessels have al
ready sailed, three are now up; and up
wards of two hundred emigrants arc now
in this city, among them are men of capi
tal. The crops in Texas last season
werr* very fine; some of the planters have
had their cotton in this market for soma
time past; they enter in for exportation,
and consequently pay no duty. It is equal
in quality to Mississippi or Louisiana.
The inducements held out by the Mexi
can government to emigrants is very
great, viz. 4446 2-3ds. acres, to every man
of family. The price of passage, for a
cabin passenger is $-20; steerage $10;
when a family is taken a reduction is
made. The time of performing this voy
age is from three to five days.”
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
We are indebted to the editors of the
Boston Patriot, for an extra containing
the subjoined extracts from English pa
pers to the 21st of January, received at
that office by the ship Mary and Harriot,
from Liverpool.
These papers bring the important and
unexpected intelligence of the arrest of
Mr. O’Connell, the celebrated Irish Pat
riot. In the present agitated state, l>oth
of England and Ireland, no step, wo
think, could have been more injudicious
in itself, and none certainly less calcu
lated to appease the discontent and irri
tation of the Irish. The people of Ire
land demand a repeal of the legislative
union between that country and Great
Britain, as the only efficient means of re
dressing the intolerable evils under which
they labour—and he who supposes, that
by arresting the popular and patriotic au
thor and adviser of that movement, he can
control public feeling, or put a period
to national agitation, only proves himself
ignorant of human nature, and utterly
unfit sot the reins of government. Asa
torrent, obstructed in its course, be
comes more violent and impetuous, and
dashes resistlessly through the obstacles
which oppose it, so the arrest of O'-
Connel, instead of allaying or subduing,
can only tend to heighten and inflame
popular indignation and excitement. We
look with solicitude for further uiteUigetarts