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COS AM EMIR BARTLETT-EDITOR. OEja©cM^ir, JS published every week in Columbus, Mits prrtr County. Georgia, by C. E. BARTLETT Sc R. SLATTER, a t Three Dollars nor atintito if piifl in advance or Four Dollars at the end of the year Ft is exacted that all application for subscription from a distance will be accompanied with the money, Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rstes Sales of land and nn-rroo*. I*y adminis trators, executors or guardians, are requited by law to be he’d on the first toesdav in the month, be' non the hours of 10 o clock in the (forenoon 4- 3 m the afternoon, at the court house of the conntv in which the property is situated. Notice ofthese sale must he given in a public Gazette gixf days previous to the day of sale. Notice of *ho sale ot* personal property must be givei in a like manner forty days previous to the dav of sale N tieetndebtors & creditorsof an estate must be oublisl ed fortv days No'iee that alt application will be mnde to the ccurt of ordinnrv for leave to sell land must be publishcdfour months. (TTM’e are authorised to announce JOHN M P ATRICK as a candidate for r ax Collectm of IWiiFCogee eounty, at the ensuing January elec tion. Feb. 10. tde CT?*We are antliori-ed t aunonnee G W. D11.T.1 A RD as a candidate fi>r Clerk of the Sup erior Court of Muscogee county, at the next Jan uary eleetion Feb 12, tde. Pf>RK AND MACKEREL. AFF, W bar rots in fine order, received by the Georgian and for *a'e by GEO. W. DILLINGHAM. March 4, 1831 2' ts ■fWrirtJii Ccllfflp 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 Note. —Editors publishing ihe above Circular 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