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HAGAR IN THE WILHEIINESS.
BY N. V. WILLIS.
The morning broke. Light stole upon the clouds
With a strange beauty. Earth received again
Its garment of a thousand dies; and leaves,
And delicate blossoms, and the painted flowers.
And every thing that bendeth to the dew,
And stirreth with the daylight, lifted up
Its beauty to the breath of that sweet morn.
All things are dark to sorrow; and the light.
And loveliness, and fragrant air were sad
To the dejected Hagar. The moist earth
Was pouring odors from its spicy pores,
And the young birds were caroling as life
Were a new thingto them; but, old it came
Upon her heart like discord, and she felt
How cruelly it tries a broken heart.
To see a mirth in any thing it loves.
She stood at Abraham’s tent. Here lips were pressed
Till the blood left them; and the wandering veins
Os her transparent forehead were swelled out,
As if her pride Would burst them. Her dark eye
Was clear and tearless, and the light of heaven,
Which made its language legible, shot back
From her long lashes, as it had been flame.
Her noble boy stood by her, with his hand
Clasped in lierovvn; and his round, delicate feet.
Scarce trained to balance on the tented floor.
Sandaled for journeying. He had looked up
Into hi* mother’s face until he caught
The spirit there, and his young heart was swelling
Beneath his snowy bosom, and his form
Straightened up proudly in his tiny wrath,
As if his light proportions would have swelled.
Had they but matched his spirit, to the man.
Why bends the patriarch as lie coibeth now
Upon his staff so wearily? His heard
Is low upon his breast, and his high brow,
So written with the converse of his God,
Beareth the swollen vein of agony.
His lip is quivering, and his wonted step
Os vigor is not there; and, though the morn
Is passing fair and beautiful, he breathes
Its freshness as it were a pestilence.
Oh! man may bear w ith suffering: his heart
Is a strong thing, and godlike in the grasp
Os pain that wrings mortality; but tear
One cord aflec ion clings to. part one tie
That binds him to a woman’s delicate love.
And his great spirit yieldeih like a reed.
He gave to her the water and the bread.
Bntspoke no word, and trusted not himself
To look upon her face, but laid his hand,
In silent blessing, on the fair-hatred boy.
And left her to her lot of loneliness.
Should Hagar weep? May slighted woman turn.
And, as a vine the oak hath shaken off,
Bend lightly to her tendencies again?
0 no! by all her loveliness, by all
That makes life poetry and beauty, no!
Make her a slave; steal from her rosy cheek
By needless jealousies; let the last star
Leave her a watcher by your couch of pain;
Wrong her by petulance, suspicion, all
That makes her cup a bitterness—yet give
One evidence of love, and earth lias not
An emblem of devotedness like hers.
But, uli! estrange her once, it boots not how,
By wrong or silence, any thing that tells
A change has come upon your tenderness, —
And there is not a high thing out of heaven
iier pride o’erraaslerelh not.
She wen» her way with a strong step and slow;
Her pressed lip arched, and her clear eye undim’d.
As it had been a diamond, and her form
B..rne. proudly up,as it her heart breathed through.
Her child kept on in silence, though she pressed
His hand till it was pained; for lie had caught,
As I have said, her spirit, and the setd
Os a stern nation had been breathed upon.
The morning past, and Asia’s sun rode up
In the clear heaven,and every beam was heat
The cattle of the hills were in tbe shade.
And the bright plumage of the Orient lay-
Ou beating bosoms in her spicy trees.
Jt was an hour of rest; hut Hagar found
No shelter in the wilderness, and on
She kept her weary way, until tlie hoy
Hung down his head, and opened his parched lips
Tor water; butshe could not give it him.
She laid him down beneath the sultry sky,—
For it was belter than the close, hot breath
Os the thick pines,—and tried to comfort him;
But he was sore athirst, and his blue eyes
Were dim ami bloodshot, and he could not know
Why God denied him water in the wild,
ishe sal a little longer, and he grew
Ghastly and faint, as if he would have died.
It was too ranch for her. fehe lifted him.
And bore him farther on, and laid his head
Beneath the shadow of a desert shrub;
And, shrouding up her face, she went away.
And salt) watch, where he could see her not,
Till he should die; and,watching him,she mourned;
‘God stay t' ee in thine agony, my boy;
1 caunotsee thee die; I cannot biook
Upon tby brow to look.
And see death settle on my cradle joy.
How have I drunk the light of thy blue eye!
And could 1 see thee die?
"I did not dream of this when thou wast straying,
Like an unbound gazelle,among the flowers;
Or w earing ro.-y hours,
By the rich gush of water-sources playing,
Then sinking weary to thy smiling sleep,
bo beautiful and deep.
*Oh no! and when I watched by thee the while,
And saw thy bright lip curling in thy dream.
And thought of the dark stream
In my own land of Eg\ pt, the deep Nile,
How prayed I that my father’s land might be
An heritage for thee!
‘And now the grave fur its cold breast hath won
thee.
And thy white, delicate limbs the earth will press;
And oh! ray last caress
M* st feel thee cold, for a chill hand is on thee.
How can 1 Fave my boy, so pillowed there
Upon his clustering hair!’
She stood beside the well her God had given
To gusli in that deep wilderness, and bullied
The forehead of her child until he laughed
In his reviving happiness, and lisped
His infant thought of gladness at the sight
Os the cool plashing of his mother’s hand.
CCrGocTs excellency, his- wisdom, his
purity and love, seemed to appear in
everything, in the sun, moon, and stars,
in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass,
flowers, trees; in the water and all nature,
which used greatly to fix try mind. I of
ten used to sit and view the moon lor a
long time, and in day spent much time in
viewing the clouds and sky, to behold the
*weet glory of God in these things, in the
mean time singing forth, with a low voice,
my contemplations of the Creator and Re
deerner. —Jonathan Edwards.
The Chastening* of the Lord. —We see
in a Jeweller’s shop, that as there are
pearls and diamonds and other precious
stones, so there are files, cutting instru
ments, and many sharp tools for their
polishing, and while they are in the
workhouse they are continual neighbours
to them, and often come under them. The
Church is God’s Jewelery, his workhouse,
where his jewels are polishing for his
palace and house; and those which he
especially esteems and means to make
resplendent, he hath oftene&t his iOols
up m.—Archbt/. Leighton.
Never treat Religion lightly. —Itnpress
young minds with reverence for all that !
is sacred. Let no wantooness of youthful
spirits, no compliance with the intemper
ate mirth of others, ever betray you into
profane sallies. Beside the guilt which
is thereby incurred, nothing gives a more
odiou.s appearance of petulance and pre
sumption to youth, than the affectation of
treating Religion with levity. Instead
of being an evidence of superior under
standing, it discovers a pert and shallow
mind, which, vain of the first smatterings ;
of knowledge, presumes to make light of
what the rest of mankind revere. At the
same time you are not to imagine that
when exhorted to be religious, you are :
called upon to be more formal and solemn
in your manners than others of the same
years, or to erect yourselves into super
cilious reprovers of those around. The
spirit of true Religion breathes gentle
ness and affability. It is social, kind,
cheerful far removed from that gloom
and illiberal superstition which clouds the
brow, sharpens the temper, defects the
spirit, and teaches men to fit themselves
for another world, by neglecting the con
cents of this. Let your Religion, on the
contrary, connect preparation for Heaven
with honorable discharge of the duties of
active life. Os such religion, discover,
on every proper occasion, that vou are
not ashamed; but avoid making any unne
cessary ostentations of il before the world.
— Blair.
The Lonely Taper. —There lias al
ways been to me something inexpressibly
touching in the single taper burning
through the long and lonely hours of si
lence and sleep. It must mark some
weary vigil; one, perhaps, by the sick
couch, where reststhepale face on which
we dread every moment to look our last.
How the very heart suspends its beating
in the hushed stillness of the sick cham
ber! what a history of hopes, fears, arid
cares, are in its hours!
Afflictions. —A Christian, for the sweet
fruit he hears to God and men. is compar.
ed to the noblest of al! plants, the vine.
Now as the most generous vine, if it be
not pruned, runs out into many super
fluous stems, and grows at last weak and
fruitless; so doth the best man, if he be
not cut short of his desires, and pruned
with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed,
il is worse to wither. Let me be pruned,
that I may grow; rather than cut up to
bum.— Bp. Halt.
Earthly Trjlics. —Nothing appears to
me more extravagant than the folly and
madness oftiiat man who can trifle with
considerations on which his eternal in
terests depend. He must soon quit his
hold of present things; he must .soun enter
another world: the grand question, there
fore is, Does any thing present itself like
footing in the abyss before him? Can a
floating atom adhere to any thing like
substance? I one ground of hope on
which lean venture. Like the dove,
therefore, which “went to and fro, but
i found no rest for her foot till she returned
to the ark,” so after trying other means
i of rest, I am reduced from necessity to
flee to that only rest and refuge set before
roe in the gospel.— Cecil.
The Two Roses. —Being with my friend
| in a garden, we gathered each of us a
rose. He handled his tenderly, smelt it
hut seldom and spat ingly. I always kept
| mine to my nose or squeezed it in mv
hand; whereby in a very short time it
lo>t both its color and sweetness, but his
still remained as sweet and fragrant as if
it had been growing on its own root. —
i The roses, said I, are true emblems of
the best and sweetest enjoyments in the
world, which, being moderately and can
, tiously used and enjoyed, may for a long
j lime \ icld sweetness to the possessor
; of them; but squeeze them 100 hard, they
i quickly wither in our hands, and we lose
; the comfort of them. It is a point of ex-
I celienl wisdom to keep the golden bridle
■ of moderation upon the affections.
Irresolution. —ln matters of great con.
cern, and which must be done, there is no
surer argument of a weak mind, than ir
resolution; to be undetermined, where the
case is so plain and the necessity so ur
gent. To be always intending to live a
new life, hut neve* to find lime to set about
it. This is as if a man should put off'eal
iiiL T , and drinking, and sleeping, from one
day and night toanotlier, till he is starved
! and destroyed.
A Solemn Calculation. —The aggregate
population of the surface of the known
habitable giobe is estimated at 895,300,-
000 souls. If we reckon with the an
cients, that a generation lasts 30 years;
then in that space, 895,300,000 human
beings will be born and die ; consequent
ly 81,760 must be dropping into eternity
| every day; 3,407 every hour; or,
about 56 every minute! How awful
is the reflection !
Frailltes. — All men have their frail
ties. “As I grow older,” said Goeth, “ I
become more lenient to the sins ot frail
! humanity. The man who loudly de
nounces I always suspect. He knows
; 100 much of crime who denounces a
fellow creature unheard—a knowledge
i which can only be obtained by criminali
ty itself. The hypocrite always strives
to divert attention from his own w icked
ness, by denouncing unsparingly tiiat of
others. He thinks he shall seem good in
exact ratio as he makes others seem bad.”
OCr’As they who, for every slight in
; firmity, take physic to repair their health,
I do rather impair it—so they who, for
i every trifle, are eager to vindicate their
character, do rather weaken it.
OCr'Time is what we want, but what
we use worst; for which we must all ac
-1 count, when lime shall be no more.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MAD MAN.
A THRILLING ADVENTURE.
When 1 first came lo Brazil, I got a
situation as clerk in the counting-house
of Diaz, Brown & Co., tlie extensive
merchants, at Rio Janeiro. The only
other while-clerk in their place ot busi
ness was one Lopez de Pereira, a Por
tuguese by descent and birth, but educa
ted in England. Ot course we became
companions; and although he was eccen
tric to absuidity, I found him a very
agreeable fellow on the whole; while he
was not at all annoyed at any laughter,
hut would laugh himself with his whole
heart, while he still persisted in the pro
ceedings that caused it. These were of
ten, while very odd, both hurtful lo him
self and painful lo his friends—as, tor
instance:
The inhabitantsof Madeira have a sin
gular head dress, it consists of a little
blue skull cap lined with red, not suffi
cient lo cover the head of an infant, hav
ing a small si iff* pig tail about four inches
in length projecting in the air from the
middle of it. Tins curious affair they
perch on a bushy head of hair, and cer
tainly acquire thereby an aspect suffi
ciently remarkable to the stranger. Now
this cap Pereira had seen at that Island on
his voyage out from England, and at once
he look it in hishead lo wear one made
under his own direction, of a similar con
si ruction at Rio; nor did he leave off* his
noticeable head piec-3 till an attack of the
brain fever made him adopt a more shady
covering. He w as, ot course, a Roman
Catholic, and devoutly believed in the
agency of the devil, upon whom, when his
whims had left him, he invariably laid the
blame.
One day when we had been about a
year together, the day being a holy-day,
we resolved upon an expedition upon the
top ofthe Corcovado. Accordingly, hiring
horses, w e rode up until horses could go
no farther. As we rode I beg*n lo laugh
and question him about his singular
weakness. My thoughts were directed
to this subject by seeing him turn round
on the horse’s back and ride with his face
to the tail; and this though tire animal
was very spirited, and the path so nanovv
that one horse only had room logo upon it;
with the stone wall to the aqueduct on
one side and a succession of wooded pre
cipices on the oilier. Ou my enquiring
the cause of this remarkable manoeuvre,
he replied, laughing loudly lo himself,
that he thought it was a good idea, as he
could talk to me better lace to face, for I
was riding in the rear. But I remaiked
that we could converse quite as well
without seeing each other and reminded
him of the misers who conversed in the
dark to save candles. Upon this he
staled that us the view laid behind us
and nothing in the fionl but woods this
was the most rational way of tiding for
- o
an admirer of llie picturesque.
I bantered him out of this argument
also, when he plainly confessed that lie
rode t licit way from an interna! impulse,
no mure to he resisted or controlled by
him than the decrees of fate—that there
was a devil within him who prompted
him to nitike himself ridiculous, and that
he could no more gainsay this mastering
spirit than ho could fly in the air. For
the rest of the ride he continued to prac
tice this uncavalier-like style of horse
mansion to the vast entertainment of sun
dry hlackics v\ e encountered working at
small repairs on the aqueduct, or bringing
down loads of slicks from ihe woods.—
Nevertheless, be continued to talk with in
finite good humor of his ow n curious turn
of mind. He told me that this devil of
his ceased its malicious promptings at
all limes when his businessoccupied him.
that cold bathing went far against it; and
that once when for a considerable time
under anti-inflammatory treatment of
some complaint, it entirely disappeared.
At length we arrived at the last collec
lion of houses on the ascent, and there we
left our horses, mounting the last steeps
on foot.
As soon as we stood upon the rocky
ball, and looked around us, overwhelmed
by the grandeur and danger of the scene,
1 was full of exclamations. From ibis
brim of the rock we stood on, the sight
leaped down direct to fields and lagoons,
two or three thousand feet beneath us;
and the precipices, from which I could
see them made my blood cold. The vast
ness oftlie horizon, with the distance and
diversity of ihe parts filling it up—the si
lence, this solitude the apparent eternal
nature of the mighty rock —even the
forests—all the ideas, combined with the
precarious nature of our position on this
airy and often cloud covered pinnacle,
and the dreadful late that awaited one
who should topple from such a great
height (for on three sides were preci
pices of from one lo two thousand feet,)
raised my mind to a very high stale of
excitement. But when 1 looked a Perei
ra, expecting to see him in an equal en
joyment, 1 observed his dark Portuguese
features pale with tival lawny color which
constitutes the pallor of southern Euro
peans, his bloodless lips quivered and
there was a soil of convulsive startings,
of the different muscles ol his body.
‘What,’ said I, ‘you are certainly not
afraid of falling?—come nearer to the
centre and your head will not swim so
much.’
‘Afraid!’ he replied vaguely and inco
herently. ‘No!—Yes—afraid—for you
—save yourself D ! for God’s sake
save yourself!’
‘Why man, there is no fear—get you
down first, yon are nearest the path.’
‘No! we shall never go down that path
—the demon, D , the demon! my heart
prompts me to throw you from this pin
nacle sheer to destruction, and he will
not but be obeyed. O, Mother of Deity!
Queen of Heaven! look on me in mercy!’
‘Gracious heavens!* said I, ‘you cannot
mean what you say?’ As I stood horror
stricken, he clasped his hands, and wring
ing them slowly, but with his whole
strength, raised them above his head,
looking forward at the same time, with
eyes sparkling from unnatural fire, and
grinding his teeth as in anguish, a mo
ment—and, with a wild howl of despair
that rung like the cry of a vulture, he
sprang upon me.
A murcy it was he gave me that warn
ing. I was prepared so far that his outset
drove me back but one step, another step
would have been death lo me! He grasped
me with his whole strength, and with the
convulsive grip of moital fear, f closed in
upon him, and thus, in dead embrace, we
stood straining with the whole power of
every sinew. It could not be cabled strug
gling, it was the slow and steady appli
cation of every force and art of the two
athletic young men, striving the one in
the frenzy of madness, the other in the
dread of immediate dissolution. Now he
would bend me a l.tile, now I him! Oh,
what agony that minute was tome!
At length, in about two minutes, 1 knew
that his strength was giving way, we
were equally matched in strength, but I
had lhe full chest and long wind, produc
ed by hard exercise through all my youth
in a far northern climate. Perceiving
this, 1 compressed his ribs with my whole
strength, and bending in his hack, gra
dually brought him down on the rock.
But the moment he was down he com
menced struggling violently, and rolled
us both over towards the awful brink. I
thought I was gone, and clutched the
rough rock with my fingers, till my nails
were torn from them. Providential my
hand came against one of the iron rusted
supports that had of old upheld the chain,
and I grasped it with that clutch com
monly called the death-grip. Holding on
by this and getting my legs about, so as
to have a good purchase while he strug
gled ceaselessly with hand and teeth to
dislodge me. I caught hold of the hair
of his temples, and dashed his head vio
lently against the rock. The blow af
fected his brains; the eyes which bad
jii't been glaring upon me with mania
cal fury, now rolled obliquely in their
sockets, and his motions were no longer
against me. With both hands I repeated
the blow, and be remained motionless;
still I was not sure of him, for I hud read
and beard the insane were very cunning,
and adopted many schemes lo accomplish
their ends, so pulling one hand on his
heait, and being able to perceive only a
faint and scarcely discernable heating, I
* • ~
got tip and drew him to llie middle of the
rock.
Then resting for a moment to breathe
and thank Heaven thai I had been saved
alive from this fearful encounter, I he
! gan to descend the rock, and dragging
' him afier me until I gel on a -ecure path,
when I shouldered him and canied him
to where we had left our horses. Here I
! got some blacks to carry him down to the
city of Rio Janeiro, and conveyed him to
i the house ofdur mutual employer, Mr.
I Brown.
As wo were quite by ourselves, I might
j have accounted for Ins injuries by a sup.
I posed fall among the rocks, but I prefer,
j red telling the whole truth as it is written
I here. An enquiry was made according
j to the law of Brazil, and I was declared
j free from all blame; whilst Pereira, who
i was then recovering his bodily health,
I was condemned lo restraint in a mad
! house for life.
1 never afterwards could look up to the
pinnacles of Corcovado without feelings
of horror being called to my mind; and so
painful was this lo me, that I was ulti
: mutely led lo transport myself and my
! fortunes to Montevideo.
Children —Dissimulation should never
be practised before children. If you
would have your children grow tip frank,
honest, disingenous, deal honestly with
them. No practice is more reprehensi
j hie than that of threatening, or making
promises to children, which you never
fulfil. The example of the parent has
i much to do in forming the character of
I the children. Any chi'd that is the sub
ject of continual deception, is almost sure
to practice it towards others. Make hon
esty ol purpose, speech, and action, natur
al lo him. This you can do by correct
example and affectionate precept.
Speaking Plain. —There is sometimes
‘much too much* ceremony between
lovers, and sometimes much too little;
and quite as often one extreme as the
other. How amusing it is to see a couple
who have been sighing a twelvemonth or
longer, and who considered themselves as
good as married, hogglingat mere words
—the formal declaration, the formal ac
ceptance or the set proposals to pas and
mas of both sides of the house. Yet you
shall see your swain afraid to broach the
awful question, except by implication,
dropping blind hints, as if it were really
a great sin lo speak plain, and you shall
see a damsel, who has made up her mind
to say yes, and who knews that it is all
understood, hesitating at the word, as if
it would burn her lips, and, after all, not
daring to speak it, but accepting a hus
band by pantomimic gestures. Thank
heaven, all people are not quite so foolish;
if they were, there would be no variety
in the world. There are, here and there,
men who are not ashamed lo say, honestly,
and in a few words, what they mean: and
there are, here and there, women who
can deal as honestly. When such people
meet, short work is made of it; and, when
one of the sensible ones of either sex is
opposed to a mincing one of the other, he
or she can help the trembler over the
brid « e - _
Anecdote of Doctor Franklin. —The con
versation having turned, in presence of Doc
tor Franklin, upon riches, and a young per
son in company having expressed hia sur-
prise that they ever should be attended with
such anxiety and solicitude, instancing one
of his acquaintances, who, though in posses
sion of unbounded wealth, yet was as busy
and more anxious than the most as.sidious
clerk in a counting house. The Doctor look
an apple from a fruit basket and presented
it to a little child, who could just totter about
the room. The child could scarce grasp it
in his hand. He then gave it another, which
occupied the other hand. Then choosing
a third, remarkable for its size and beauty,
lie presented that also. The child, alter
many ineffectual attempts to hold the three,
dropped ihe last on the carpet, and burst into
tears. ‘’See there,” said the philosopher,
“there is a little man with more riches than
he can enjoy.”
AUGUSTA. GEO.. ~
SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21, 1846.
O" We are indebted to tlie office of the N.
O. Jeffersonian, for a slip containing later
news from Mexico, which will be found be
low.
Georgia Marble. —Mr. J. Artope, says the
Macon Messenger, lias just received Ins first
load of Marble by the Rail Road, from his
Quarry, in Gilmer county. He lias several
blocks, slabs, obelisks, &,c., of good size, at
his \ ard, and the quality is superior to any
American Marble we have seen. Our mar
kets can now be supplied with a domestic
production, probably not equalled by any in
the country.
A Chance for Somebody. —A Bookseller in
John street. New York, advertisers for a sale
“six hundred volumes of the most famous
sermons in the language, any one of which
is sufficient to establish a Jirst rate reputation
for a young clergyman .” These sermons will
be speedily disposed of.
[From theN. O.Jrffersonian, Extra, Nov. 16.]
LATEST FROM MEXICO.
IMPORTANT NEWS ! —ANOTHER REVOLUTION!
By the brig Hayne, just arrived from
Havana, we have been put into possession
of Havana papers to the 6th insl. Their
contents, which we condense, will be
found important at ibis crisis of our Mexi
can relations.
The English steamer , (name
I omitted.) arrived at Havana from Vera
j Cruz on iheGlh after a passage of four
I days. She brought 102 passengers—ihe
• principal part of whom were Mexicans
j who had left Mexico on account of the
prosecution of the war.
Our dales from Vera Cruz are to the
| 31;-i ultimo.
| On the 27th October, M, Pacheco, Min
ister of foreign relations, and Don Ores
Cenico Rejon, Minister of Mercy and Jus
lice, threw up their commissions. Their
resignation w as accepted by the President
ad interim , and Dun Maria La frag
na, and Dun Joaqnine Ladron de Gueva
ra had been appointed in their stead.
The Department of Sun Luis Potosi
has declared against live Presidency of
j General Saias, and the people ot I hat De
partment have declared their opposition
lo entrusting the affairs of the government
either to Santa Anna, or any’ other per
son w hom he may select. The confidence
which previous advices seemed to have
placed in Santa Anna by the people of
Mexico, appears to have been without
foundation.
Santa Anna is repoited to have arrived
w ith his handful of troops at San Luis Po
tosi on the Bth October, and established
his headquarters, lie immediately com
menced a correspondence with General
i Salas, expressive of his confidence in Lis
i administration, and pledging him his sup
i port in any endeavor to sustain him. This
too, in the very face ot the expression of
the people against Salas, by the people of
; San Luis Potosi. Verily, Santa Anna
is playing a deep game, which lime alone
will expose.
'fite dates from the city of Mexico are
the 251 h and 26sh October. From these
we learn that Don Felix Rivas, charged
by the executive of Mexico with a special
commission, the contents of which have
not transpired, left the capilo! on the 24th
for Vera Cruz, with instructions to make
his way to Havana with all dispatch.—
We heartily hope that our fleet wi l in
tercept him, and keep up a stricter block
ade than that which is represented as be
ing kept up at present.
Gen. Salas having had his life threat
ened, left the place on the 28lh October,
and made his way in safely to Gacuhaya,
where he was received very cordially by
Don Flores. The President ad interim
took with him in this flight some of the
best troops which garrisoned the capitol.
It is reported that Santa Anna has ex
pressed his approval of Lafragna and
Guevara.
It is rumored that the TJ. S. steamers
off Green Island, are short of coal, and
the crews suffering from scurvy.
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The Mexican papers estimate the ex
penses of the war thus far, on the part of
the United States at seventy-five millions
of dollars. This is Mexican calculation.
The Mexican papers think that lo con
tinue the war will prove highly advanta
geous to the Mexicans, as the advances
c* ', * •
of the foe should be met by light skirm
ishes and other embarrassments, until the
Americans shall be expelled from the
country.
Extract of a letter dated Vera Cruz,
October 12th.
“Com. Conner yesterday addressed a
letter of thanks to the General command
ing this place, thanking him for the cour
tesy and kindness shewn to the officers
and crew of the Truxton.
“An attack on the Castle of San Juan
d’Ulloa and the town of Vera Cruz, was
expected to take place this week. The
enthusiasm and valor which was dis.
played by the Mexicans at Monterey, will
not fail here.”
“The National Guard are approaching
Vera Cruz by forced marches.”
Several private letters from the “army
of the North.” slate that Santa Anne hail
ordered all the troops at Saltillo to Sail
Luis Potosi.
Most of the foregoing information is
derived from extracts of private letters
received at Havana, and expressive only
of Mexican views.
Georgia Flour. —We have received a spe
cimen, (and what is the best of it, a large
one.) of Flour made from Bibb county Whea»,
and ground at the Mill ofour friends, Arthur
Foster and Fred. Colbert, 16 miles from this
place. The Flour will compare favorably
vvilli the best New York Canal Flour. It
makes better bread, and when certain old
fashioned prejudices entertained by the softer
sex are removed, it will be preferred for
pastiy. For beginners, the operations of
Messrs. Foster &, Colbert, are quite respec
table. They sell on an average, 4,000 lbs.
of Flour, weekly. We commend it to the
notice of our thrifty housewives. —Macon
Messenger.
tree politeness.
He who has a good heart glowing with
kindness and good will towards his lellow
men, and who is guided in exercise of there
feelings by good common sense, is truly the
polite man. Politeness does not consist iu
wearing white silk gloves, and in gracefully
lifting your had as you meet an acquaintance
: —it does nut consist in artificial smiles and
Haltering speech, but in sincere and honest
' desires to promote the happiness of those
around you; in the readiness to sacrifice your
j own ease and comfort, to add to the enjoy
j ment of others. 'The poor negro women who
found Mungo Park perishing under the palm
trees of Africa,and who led him to their hut,
and supplied him with food and lulled him
with their simple songs, were genuinely
polite. They addressed him in language of
j kindness and sympathy, they led him lender*
1 Iv to their home, and did all in their power
| to revive his drooping spirit.
A poor drover was driving his beeves to
! market in a winter’s day. The cattle met a
I lady on the path, and apparent ly unconscious
J of the impoliteness, compelled the lady to
turn one side into the snow. “Madam,” said
i t/ie drover, apologising for the rudeness of
1 his herd, “it the cattle knew as much as I
do, you would not walk in the snow.” That
drover was, in the best sense of the term, a
gentleman.
The man who lays aside all selfishness in
regard to the happiness of others—who is
I ever ready to confer favors, who speaks iu
| the language of kindness and conciliation,
and who studies to manifest those little at
! tentions which gratify the heart, is a polite
| man, though he may wear a homespun coat,
! and tnake an ungraceful bow. And many
a fashionable, wtio dresses genteelly, and
enters the most crowded apartment with as
surance of ease, is a perfect compound of
rudeness and incivility. True politeness is
a virtue of the understanding and the heart.
It is not like the whited sepulchre, or Sodom’s
far-famed fruit. There are no rules of the
exercise of its virtue, more corrector more
definite than those laid down in the New
: Testament. There is no book of politeness
i comparable with the Bible.
AT run: TIA>XIO> UOIMR
NOVEMBER 20, 1816.
Name*. Residence.
Beat ll id Harper; Libert Gu.
VV.J.liarper, “
Win. A. Diclic i>on, Virginia.
J O. L mar, Alabama.
Thomas A. Lyne, Taliaferro.
Wit laniDoariug, Charleston.
M. Fence. “
Wr.Ran.scy, Midway, Gt.
L.C. Jubaawti, South Carolina,
Gi orge F. utter, U. e>. Navy.
J. New York.
Henry Wilkinson, Virginia.
: Jacob Broughton, Grecue.Ga.
I U. A. Ludlow, Mississippi.
ARRIVAL* AT THE (J. ». HOTEL
NOVEMBER 20, 1846.
Name*. Residence.
D. G. Mason, Boston.
K. Waters, Cti irleston.
I W. Pointdexter, Louisiana.
I S. Mourey Jr., Charleston.
; Win. 11. Stevens, North Carol in it.
j Peterficld Treat, Richmond, Va.
Wm. Morrow, Somci ville, A la.
P. VV.Auten, Charleston.
J. 11. Wilson, Abbeville, 8. C.
Johnßixter, North Carolina.
A. J. Burch, Alabama.
M iss Burch, “
J R. Hancock, Madison, Ga.
Wm. Gardner, Alabama,
i D.G.Luke, “
ARRIVALS AT THE GLOBE UO TEli
NOVEMBER 21. 1846.
Names. Residence,
W. herring, Atlanta.
W.T Low« , Charleston, S. C.
Daniel Thompson, Crawfordvillc, Ga,
John A. Anderson, Savannah,
| Robert H. Gnthu, ••
I Col. Myers, “
i N. 'J'. Trammell, Eomc.Gn.
W. T. Cobb, Tbomastou, Ga,
! Mrs. Allen «fc 2children,
■ J.Lpps, Atlanta.
A.Ncesun. Columbia, Ga.
Milton Turman, Georgia.
William Kole, DeKalb, Ga.
undersigned, proprietor*
! of the United States, Globe, and Mansion House
I Hotels, have mutually agreed and established the
following rates, commencing on the first day of
November next:
Boarders by the year, with lodging, pay- £
able monthly, (per month) )
i Board, without lodging, iper month) 18 00
“ underune week, (per day) i3O
“ over one week to 15days, (per day).. 125
“ over 15 days, (per day) 100
“ one month with lodging, 30 00
“ two and three months, (per month). ..25 00
Supper, Lodging and Breakfast, 1 25
Three meals, without lodging, 1 2 »
One or two meals, (each).. 30
One meal, with lodging, . I 00
Lodging, 50
Fires, 30
Dimer boarders, (per month) 10 OS
ifc>"Extru meals and lights, a separate charge.
No deduction for absent time, under one week,
for the above.
No deduction for absent time for families who
occupy rooms. I). MIXER,
F. M. JENNINGS.
G. G. MATHEWS.
Auguste, October 31, 1846. d&w 1m
FRENCH AND SPANISH LANGUAGES.
F. Leßarbier, who has been engaged, for
many years, as a Teacher, in several college* of
the United States and the island of Cuba, give*
lessons in French (his native language) and Span*
ish, either in schools or in private families.
His method of teaching is simple, and will in a
short time enable a scholar to make much progress
in either language.
His terms are moderate.
Apply to him at the United States Hotel, every
morning before ten o’clock, or in the afternoon, be
tween two and four o’clock.
REFERENCES.
H. H. Gumming, Esq., I G. T. Doriic,
Jas. Gardner, Jr. Esq. | Dr. Dugas,
J. W. Jones, Esq., j N. Delaigle,
J. M. Adams, | T. J. Parmelec,
Gardelle & Rhind.
Oct 24 Iq* Cj