The Democrat. (Columbus, Ga.) 1830-18??, November 26, 1831, Image 2
"Ti as hushed—and he that came last went lip and sat upon the thronq, ' 1 In his haiul he held a dart that was ever chaug.ng, and, indeed, so was his coun tenance; now thick mists uere around him -o tiiat he was dimly seen, and then thev rolled away, and us they passed his face seemed milder, aitJ the light )«*yoitd grew brighter. And there was deep si enc •. A.id within him the leech heard u voice whispering “Bow down, for thou art in the presence of Death,’’ and he liowed down, ind presently there came a voice soft and low as the .-EoUan Harp, which said “A rise O U ijiidi Matador, flower of phvsici,#s»s, and lord of leeches, men of common stamp may fear Hie, but what hast thou, who art my particular friend, to fear?” and then the leech arose, and when In looked again ujion Death, fcis fearful appearance was departed, and lo! a fair and w-< fl visnged sat upon the throne, •but still he Vlta was Death. “M.igrtns,” sai l the nio.aareh, you have always been my faithfed friend and coadjutor, and now that 1 am brought to a pinch, 1 have sent to viii is a safe anti sapient counsellor. “Here von see my three chief minis ters. War, I temperance and Want; (tile t!ir<** secretaries made each a respect ful Its) hut” continued their master, “they and all their attendant diseases, the which you see around them, afld* are doubtless well acquainted w ith, do not produce the des red effect; now, my good friend, what think you can he the reason; hut 1 pray you sit. down. Plague, give the good gen tleman a chair.” Magnus thanked the w k< ol hearted monarch,” and took aseat in the skeleton chair offered hint by the “spot! y pestilence.” “Sire,” said the pity si■•hi , thrusting his hand into his immense co' ■ o< 't, “I feel greatly honoured by the notice your majesty and your ministers have condescended to take ol’ me,” and i»till lie kept fumbling in his pocket. ,1 recogniz.e them and their several suits as old acqunntaiices and friends. As to the point on winch your majesty wished to consult me,’ continued lie, drawing out at l ist, from his pocket, a roll of parch ment, “ is to that noil it, I have here, sire, a plan drawn up by myself from which I am convinced more men might be de stroyed iu one year than are now in twep- ' tv,” The monarch rubbed liis hands in delight: “The great enemy” continued Ma gnus “the omnipresent foe that your! majesty has to fear, is simply Fxcrvise; could we get rid of him, War, and Intem perance ami Want would no longer work and sweat in vain,’ ‘But,’ interupted ] the monarch,‘how shall we get rid of, him?* ‘That’s precisely the point; now, sire, bv this plan of mine 1 would obviate j the necessity of exercise in preparing for war, a* least iu a degree 1 would Ooviate ! tin 1 " t '-fn ut aii •“Tnufactures, an! j i are lazv —your | in ije-ty u. dersta.> ■’< me.' Intemjierance laughed outriglit .for joy, and Corisump- ] tion c»>i jiied i,is m ice re approbation.— | ‘I wdi leave tlie plan with yuor majesty,’ said the U ecii, and he extended his hand with the p.irchmeet to Death. As the nni inVh I aik it, Ins face became dim a gain—fi.s form again vast ad dreamlike: ; all fil led before the eyes of the Doctor, i there came again the beating of wings. l and then the unbroken stillness ami then forgetfulness—the clock had been upon th<* eleventh stroke when he lost his rec ollection, and when it came again it was uj o i the twelfth. 1 torn that day forward the practice o Vl tgims VI itndor flourished famously ; : all liked bun, for to nil h s rule was to keep still, to t ike care not to catch cold, walk cut of the air; his advice accorded! well with the inclinations of his patients, and soon Dr. Matador stood unrivalled in | Madrid. And ere many years went by, j his plan began to be felt throughout the i world. The invention of gunpowder, j printing, tlie various improvements in ag- ! ricultur<4 and manufactures, the diffusion j of learning, the revival of letters, the steam engine, the rad way, were but so many j steps in the great plan, first suggested by j the Madrid Physician, and backed by ail the mrgv of the shadowy monarch.— Intemperance now revelled in luxury ; the ! strong warriors and urtizans, and Ints b ainen of old, were changed for puny bedizened, lazy soldiers: tor pale sickly, manufacturers; for drinking, disputing, voisig fanners; and hard after intemper ance ever conies Want, and he too, found a plentiful harvest to he reaped. Ami even War, though at first his interest see med hurt by the “reform” found at last, it was nil for his good. And every day the power of death increased; till at last Magnus himself, after establishing a sect, whose motto was “keep out of the air,” even he died; arnl going down into those dim realms again, lie took his seat upon the monarch’s right hand, atW dropping his title of Doctor M agnus Matador, he took that of Death’s Prime Minister, and Duke of Dyspepsia. Fiom the l.forarv of V'ntertaimnj Knowledge. EFFECTS OP LOVE. Solano waft originally a gipsev, or %vatidcrhig tinker; it was in tliis churac te he made his first appearance at Naples in tii»* beginning of the fifteenth centu ry. U<‘ was, at this time, in thetwcnty ventlt vear of his age, having been born, it is said although about tins date there in come doubt, in the year 1382. A\ Idle here lie chanced to Ik* employed to do Miiiic work in the way of his craft hy i* painter of the name of Cohintunm del J .ore. This painter had a very Iteuuti fa! daughter; the young lady was M en bv Holorn,and tfie tinker at owe ju»im love with her. It was taking nlmld step, cer tainlv, and one not very lih< lv to be »ue> ccssful; Imt inijM-iled by Ins |m*»i<»n, the fttiiaiuoritl SoLr.# dvtt/tVfncg «pdv <Ju , lady from intr Riflier in marriage, FT:» application was treated with ridicule by Culantooio; who by way of effectually ex tinguishing the poor gipsey’s hopes, told him that he meant to bestow bis daughter only upon someone who was as good a painter tis himself. “Then will you ac cept of me,” said Solaro, “for your son in-law, if, after a certain time, I shall pre sent myself to you with that qualification? Will you give me ten years to learn to paint, and so entitle myself to the hand of your daughter? Celautonio thought that he would not hazard much by assenting to this proposal, hv w inch lie would at least rid himself for the present, and for a considerable time to come, of bis im portunate suitor, whose pertinacity and earnestness began somewhat to alann him; and so, not greatly apprehending that lie should ever hear more of him, he assured the tinker, that, if lie came back widiiti the period in question transformed into a painter, the young lady should be his. Before this, the story relates, Sola rio had, by some means or other, obtain ed the attention and favour of the King’s sister; and he now insisted that Cohuito *•»« ‘koiiU y«. with him to that princess, and, in her presence, renew his coven ant. Smnew hat more favourable impres sed towards bis proposed son-in-law, probably, by being made aware of the interest he bail at court, the painter u greed to this also: and the princess accor dingly became the witness of the solemn ratification of his engagement. Having settled the matter thus far, Solario im mediately left Maples, for Colantonie had stipulated that he should remove to a dis tance w hile acquiring Ins new accomplish ments; and in the first instance, lie pre ceedcd directly to Home. Here, howev er, he could not find an instructor to his mind; but he heard much talk of Lippo Dobu&si, who resided at Bologna, and thither therefore he determined to betake himself. On finding Lippo, and telling him his object, he received at first from that person only an urgent exhortaiion to think no more of so wild a plan, and to trust to the eificacy ol time and absence to cure his passion; but Solario continued to press ins application so perseveringly employing even tears lo aid Ins entreaty, that the reluctant painter was at last pre vailed upon to admit him as his pupil. To tlici ardent Solairo it now seemed as if all lus diificuties were over. From the moment in winch he began to receive hippo’s instructions, his application was unceasing. Awkward as he was at first he soon became the admirati““ tii vy oi his leliow B“Bicnis; and .even Ins masu*- uunseif now advised him to per severe in lus now career, as earnestly as he had formerly endeavored to dissuade him irom entering upon it, He remain ed six orsevenyemo r.»uup p „ anj j then ici\ .u visit tlie other principal towns ot Italy, with the view of improving himself iu his art hy studying the various styles of other painters. In this pereg rination he spent nearly three years, du ring winch fie visited among other places, Florence, Ferrara, and Venice; and then returned once more to Naples, alter an absence of nine years and some months. He first presented himself to one of the gentlemen attuclied to the court wliose p.cture he drew, and by lus means he was introduced to the presence of Ins old friend, tlie princess, who would seem by this time to have ascended the throne. Changed as he was in outward appear ance, as in every thing else, he was not recognized by lus former patroness; but a Madonna and Child, ofhis own draw ing, which beoffered to her, was gracious ly accepted. When her majesty had ex pressed iier approbation of this picture, the painter threw hiinselt at her feet; and ventured to ask her if she did not recol lect the wandering gipsey, who ten years before had the honor of being admitted to her presence, and in whose fortune she had then been pleased to take an interest. After recognising him, the queen at first, would scarcely believe that he had really pamted the picture lie had given her, but, on his executing in her presences portrait of herself, she no longer doubted tlie truth of bis pretensions. She then sent for Cofiuitonio, and having submitted the pictures to his inspection, desired him to tell her what he thought of them. Col aotonio extolled them both to the skies. On this her majesty asked him whether he would not rather give his daughter to the artist whose productions were now be fore Inin, than wait any longer for the return of the gipsey, of whom he had heard nothing for so many years? Too glad of such an opportunity of escaping from hisengagement. the Napolitan pain ter eagerly expressed his assent to this proposal; when her majesty caUingto So lano to step forward from his place of concealment behind a curtain, where he had heard all that passed, at once solved the mystery. We need scarcely add the conclusion of the story. Solario receiv ed his well-earned bride; the Father, as he put her hand in bis remarking that if not his ancestry, at least, his art deserved her. Solaro was soon after this appointed painter to the Napolitan Court. During the remainder of his life he executed many works, which placed him in the very first rauk of the painters of that age. DItSOIiUTIOIV. riMlEcop.irtafT-Jiip heietofure *jti«ting lie » twean th« KUbtcrilmrs has been ilia-al v«d by mutual consent—All |t< rsons ouloiiiuj n>tbe firm, will make payment to Thomas M'. Dutton, mel all parsons having do mu mis against the said fiiin will apply to lorn for psvmsnt Thomas \\. Dintrrn, Stephen 11. Stanley. The busmans wifi be wMitinuml by the aubxsri bur Tkiittay W, Dutton. Vt GEORGIA LEGIM, AH at. LN SENATE-— Nov. 16, Lsil.. Committees were appointed agreeublv to previous notice. Several bills were reported and read the first time. Mr. Dunicll presented a petition from the Mayor and Corpora ion of Savannah, asking that a fund may be appropriated, either by lux or otherwise, for the purpose of building' a lazaretto at the port of Sa vannah; which was read ainl referred to the committee on finance. Thursday , IYon. 17. Committees w ere appointed agreeably to notices previously,given. Several lulls were reported aud read the tint time. The bill to repeal the loth section of act to authorize the survey and disposition of the kinds in the occupancy of the Che rokees, Ac. passed Dec. 21, 1830, was taken »p, aud after some debate, ordered to lie at tufih;, till called up* Several bills were read the second time, aid ordered for a third reading. Tht Senate look up the amendments of tlie House of Representatives, to tlie hill of the Senate, extending the time to fortunate drawers in the land lotteries of 1818, 1819, and 1821, to take out their grants. On motion, the Senate concur red m the amendment to the Ist section of the bill extending the time fiom 1832 to 1837. On coneutring in the amend ment of tlie House of Representatives to the Ist section of she bill relating to the lotteries of Iplß and 1819, reducing tlie grant fee from s x to five dollais, the yeas were 30, nays 23. The Senate also con curred in the amendment to the 2d sect, relating lo the lottery of 1821, extending tlie time to take out grants to 23th Dec. 1837, and reducing t.fie grant fee to five dollars. Friday, Nov. 18. Committees were appointed agreeably to notices previously g.ven. Mr. Singh ton, from tlie committee ap pointed, reported a bill to laise a perma nent fund for the support of common schools in tlie State of Georgia; which was read the first time. Mr. Mealing, from the committees ap pointed, reported a oill to alter and amend an act to impose an additional tax on l’edlars and Oliver itiuerant traders, pass im ircccmr.o-i.-7, ~..u a oni m cliatigv tlie (iresent mode of voting; which were read tlie first time. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Nov. 14. Bills were reported us follow: Mr. Oliver. To provide for the cull of a Convention to revise the 3d, 4th, 7th and 6th sections of the Ist art. of tlie Con stitution —atul To alter the Jury’s and Attorney’s fees in this State. Mr. Byrd. To amend the 4th section of the Laud Lottery act. Mr. Burney. To require justices of the peace to give bond aid security. Mr. Hutson. To prevent the assem blage of persons of color and slaves under pretence of religious worship, or for any otfiyr purposes whatsoever, without ex press permission from their owners, and the presence of one or more rcsjioiisible citizen or citizens of this State. Mr. Baker. To appoint commissioners and authorize them to receivehnoiiey from the Treasury, byway of loan for the pur pose of building a bridge across the Chat tahoochee, in tile town of Columbus. BILLS PASSED. To establish additional election dis tricts in Meriwether. To define the liability of purchasers of real estate at Executors’, Administrators’, and Guardians’ Sales, when they refuse or fail to comply with the terms of such sales. Tuesday, Nov. 15. BILLS REPORTED. Mr. Tarver. To compel the judges of the Superior Courts to alternate, and pre scribe the manner of alternation. Mr. Meriwether. To regulate the in tercourse between Banks and private in viduals, and to subject the Banks now in corporated or hereafter to be incorpora ted in this State, to the payment of dama ges in case they refuse or fail to pay spe cie for their bills, when demanded, and to prescribe more particularly tire manner in which the annual reports of Banks shall he made. Wednesday, Nov. 10. Committees were appointed agreeably to notices given. BILLS REPORTED. Mr. Pet tit. To abolish Penitentiary imprisonment in this State, except in cer tain cases, and to change the mode of punishment for crimes and misdemea nors, Mr. Burney. To amend the Judiciary luwwif 1799, in relation to hail, and also to amend the Judiciary law of this State passed in 1799,50 far as to authorise the issuing of bad process in certain eases”— passed in |M3O, so as to authorise agents, attorneys in fact orut law to hold to hail in all cases, Mr. Buki*r. To authorise the liitendiiut and CuinuiiosiiHiers of Columbus, to lay oil'and least water lot* in said town, be* .low Thorn w street, |ioT u« eicueding 20 >*««v The bill From the Senate to reduce die fees on grunts, anJ to extend the time ot taking them out iu the lotterfc-s of 1818, 1819 and 1821, was read the thud tune and passed. Thursday, Noc. 17. Several bills of minor importance hav ing been passed, the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Glascock in the Chair, on the bill to amend live act of 1830, to alter the jury’s and attorney’s fees. Tlie bill provides, that hereafter in all, civil actions tried, the jury’s fee shall la -83, and the attorney’s tee 82. And that in all cases f confession of judgment, the fees shall be the same, the jury’s fee be ing in all casts first paid. Mr. Meriw ether offered a substitute,pro viding that hereafter, the attorney’s fee should he the same as before the passage of the act of 1830, that grand aud petit ' jurors should receive $1 per day, to be! paid out of the county funds, aud that in all cases tried, plaintiffs should pay a tax | of $2, to he paid into the county treasury and assessed in the hill of costs. Mr. Oliver said that when the House had given the subject the proper con sideration, be was convinced that the substitute ‘would not be received. The subject of paying jurors, had been agi tated, in some shape or other, for the last Bor 10 years, and last year a bill had been passed providing for their payment to a certain extent, liut in the practical operation of that bill, it had been found to be detective, and in this tlie defect consisted—that when a plain case came up for trial, the defendant would gene rally confess judgment, and thus defeat the jury oftheir fee. And in Elbert coun ty the farce had been carried still far ther: It liaii been proposed that the plaintiff should conies judgment for the purpose of depriving the jury of their fee. II jurors are to be paid at all, let us amend the act and give them what the law fainy entitles them to. He had, he said, drawn up the biii accordingly. He had, he thought, expressed what was intended tube expressed in the law of the last year, and he could see no earthly re a on why it should not be passed. It was clear that juries should receive something for their services; and if that allowance is so provided fi us that they can be, by management, defeated of their just claims, it seemed to him to be sporting n ith them very improperly. Mr, Meriwt tker said he would state ve ry briefly, the motives by which he had 'been influenced in introducing bis sub stitute. The law existing previous to the act of 1830, gave the attorney tjjtl, and the jury #l, Last year that law \v. s altered so as to give the attorney s*2, and the jury $3. This last fee was con sidered so very enormous, that parties would very frequently confess judgment for the purpose of avoiding tlie payment of it. The result .was, that juries were —«* -1 **» »* ofC..n< c.s-lont *> I* t lt«\l n it peusation. This, bethought, was un just. No man could be more earnest than Ik* was, in the opinion that jurors should be compensated. Judges. She riffs, Clerks, &c. are all paid liberally; yet jurors, whose services as u consti tuent part ofour courts, are very impor tant. are very often poor men, who are compelled to lose their time, and yet receive no adequate compensation. This was no justifiable principle: He had two objects in view; the first to lessen the price of collections made by attorneys; and the second, to secure a permanent fee to jurors, in attendance, whether their services be finally required ir. a case or not. Attorneys will not be in jured, because they will be sufficiently paid by their clients. Os I hat matter they will take care. The next topic to wVich he would ad vert, was, that as to the sum that was to lie paid to the jurors, the substitute was better than the original bill, and for this reason. The original bill provides that juries shall receive a fee of $3, whether judgment is confessed or not. Now a court may remain in session, and jurors may remain in attendance ten days, and yet not have a case to try; so they w ill get nothing. Mr, M. said his object was to prevent this by paying them $l per day; after this inar~er: For every case, whether it goes to the Jury or not, tlie plaintiff shall pay one dollar to go into the county treasury; and the plaintiff will get his money back again t»y having it‘axed in the hill of costs. It will go into the county funds, and the deficien cy will he made up out of w hat may be on hand of these funds. Mr. Bates moved that the committee riseand report ameement to the bill, which was curried. Nothing of general interest was trans acted on Friday. From the Milled gcville Journal. State House Officers. —On Friday last, the Legislature elected Frerard Hamilton , Secretary ofState; John Wil liams, Treasurer; Thacker It. Howard, Comptroller General; and John Ft thane, Surveyor-General BALLOTING 8. SECRETARY OF STATE. Hamilton, 119 James Bozeuian, 93 Blank, i TREASPRER Ist b. 2d b. 3d. 4th. full. John Williams, 10, 42, 55, 92, 119. R. W. Alston, OH, 96, 64, withdrawn W.C. Redding, 14, 14, 13, 13, withd T. B. Reese, 23, 21, 37, 43, 34. A. B. Holt, .37, 36, 43,36, 54 COMPTROLLER-GENERAL. Thacker B. Howard, 111 Ahrahum B. Fannin 93 111 h , 1 SITIi'F.Yf)R-GENER \ L. John Bethoue 113 Jacob M’Leudou 42 I*ttrlr**n M Hborp f'l* THE DEMOCRAT. i SATflftilAV. NOVUMHEU fly WILLIAM SCHLEY csq.Tff Richmond county, is a candidate for member of congress to fill the occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Lumpkin. £[/^A. 8. CLAY FON, esq. ol Clar!; county, is also candidate for the same ap pointment. Election to be held on Monday the of December next. It has been a most singular manoeuvre in party politics, first the dismissal of judge Clayton form the Bench in dis* and then the cifort to rally the same party round the same individual, With the marks ot public odium recent upon hnn # as the candidate to represent tlie people of Georgia in Congress. This is a most singular proceeding, if Judge Clayton was unworthy a seat on tha bench is Jte not equally unworthy a seat ui congress? And if the principles which he sustains, are dangerous as a judge, are. they not cquul/y sous a member of con gress? Personally* we have no feelings, of ill will agailist Mr. Clayton; he is a man of talents, and merely as such we would and. light to yield him the meed of praise. But snlnnittinwas he has quietly done to he disgraced by Ins own part y can lie reasonably count on the support of any other. Erratum —A material error occurred in our last number iu the first paragraph of the communication from Milledgevilic. In correcting the last proof tlie figuro, eight (8) was inserted instead of the dol lar mark fiji) which made the amount of* the draft sjiokeii of read 8239 instead $239. We are also requested to state that it was the w ish of the w riter that faij| coimnunfijatiou should have been publish?, ed anonymously. The accidental omis sion of a particle in a private uote led to %. misapprehension of the w ishes of the wnt> er iu this regard. Anew Post Otfice has been established at Bellevuk, Talbott countv, James Mr. Davis P. M. No business of importance had been, transacted at Milledgeville at the lusts dates. Several important bills were* before* the legislature, and as the elec tions have been gone through with wo, may expect they will receive an early, attention. The bill to establish the CammerctfL Bank of Macon, has passed the senate. The U. S. Circuit Court commenced :to oitiiiig in Miiiedg-vil.e on the lOtk inst. Judge Cuyler presiding; Judgo. Johnson did not attend owing to indis position. William Jasper Wilkinson* the individual accused of robbing the* mail, was tried and convicted, and sen tenced to ten years imprisonment: tho long pending case of Arnold vs. Milieu was postponed. Daily Macon Tel. ST \) c itt a x U ( t. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Bacon, i :::::: 12 1-2 lit Cotton Bagging, (Kentucky) : 25 Inverness, : : ; :20 a 2*4 Caudles, Sperm ::::::: 35 a 38 lly* Tallow 15 a 16 lb. Castings, 9 a 19 lb* Coilee, :::::::: ; : J 4 a 10 lly Corn Meal, 50, busily Cotton, round bags, : : :: 5 1-2 a 6 3-4 Square, do : : : : : 6 a 7 1-81 Mackerel, No. 1. : : : : : : $10 —bbh. “ No. 2. $9. * “ No. 3. :::: $7 a 7 50. * Flour, Northern,: $lO Georgia, : 8. Glass Window, 8 by 10 $4,50, bov “ 10 by 12 :;: $5, “ Gun Powder : : : ; : : $7,50 a 8 kegj Iron, Sweedes, : :::::: : 61-2 lb. Bar Lead : : : : : : : : : : : 9 w Molasses, N. Orleans 45 a 50, gallon. Salt, Liverpool ground, SI,OO bu.sheL. “ coarse, $1 a 1 1-2 “ Shot,: ; .* : : : : ;„• $2 a 2,50 bafl> Spirits, Brandy Cog. 1,50 a 2,50 gaL “ Apple, scarce. a “ Peticli :;: :: l * Rum Jamiaca : : : : : 150 a 200 * “ St. Croix .- : : : 125 a 175, *> “ N. England :: ::; ;50a 60 **■ Gin, Holland 150 a 175, 6 44 Northern ::::::::: 65 *4 Whiskey, Western :■: : : : : 60 *1 44 Northern : : : : : : 50 “ Sugars, N. Orleans, brown 9 a 11, lU-. Loaf : : : : : : IS a23 4 * Tallow : : 8 A Tea 125a230,“ Wines, Maderia : : : 300 a 500, galV- TeneriiTee : :: : 150 u 275, 44, Malaga: 50a 100,“ THE COPARTNERSHIP, HERETOFORE existing between C. E. Bartlett h. It. Stutter, in the print# ing business, is ibis day dissolved by mutual consent. The business of 6h> eoueern will be entiled by C.E. Bartletj: C. /•:. Bartlett j 21. ShMrc, Nov. l.\ l«*>*