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POETRY. [From the Boston Daily Advertiser ] THE JINGKO TREE For the information of distant readers it may be proper to state, that the Jingko is a Chinese tree which formerly stood on the hill owned by Gardner Greene, Esq., but which was remov ed to Boston Common, when the hill was dug down. Thou queer, outlandish, fan leaved tree. Whose grandfather came o'tr the sea, A pilgrim of the ocean, Did’st thou expect to geather gear, By selling out thy chop sticks here ? What a mistaken notion ! Hard times, methinks, have been thy fate, Such as have played the deuce of late, With men's estates and purses, Since on thy native mount secure, Thou deemd st thy title safe and sure, Nor dreamd'st of such reverses. They dealt thee many a sturdy thump, They digged the earth beneath thy stump, And left, thee high and dry. The spot, which once thy roots did bore, Is now’ the garret of a store, And earth is changed to sky. They dragged thee sweeping through the street, They set thee up upon thy feet, And made thee sink or swiin. For many’ a month ’twas quite a doubt, If thou could’st possibly hold out, Thou look'dst so very slim. And every morn a motley crew Os idling loungers came to view Thy withered limbs on high ; And many a knowing look was there, While some that thou would'st live did swear, And some that thou would st die. Some shook their heads, and hinted fear, It cost so much to move thee here, That taxes would he cruel, And some exclaimed what pity ’twas, In these hard times to incur the loss Os hall’ a cord of fuel. But thou most grave and sapient tree, Their idle talk was nought to thee ; Yet could not be prevented : So thou did’st wave thy breezy head, And nod assent to all tlu-y said, And send them home contented. Meanwhile thou did st resort to toil, Send forth small roots in quest of soil, And husband well thy gains. Two years thou mad’st hut little show, But let thy useless trimmings go, And liv'dst within thy means. Dear Jingko, in these days of dread, Methinks a lesson may be read, In thy lorn situation. Thy story might perhaps impart To many a vex’d and drooping heart, Some hints of consolation. Tell them thou too hast been distressed, And found thyself at times quite pressed For want of friendly propping : When none who witnessed thy mishap Would lend thee half a gill of sap, To save even thee from stopping. Tell them how low thy credit sank, And how they ran upon thy hath, And cleared thy vaults profound ; How thy supplies were all cut oil’, And sure thy stock was low enough When flat upon the ground. But thou, brave tree, did’st not despair, But boldest up thy head in air, And wast not seen to flinch. Thou lct'st them know for very spunk, Thou still hadst something in thy trunk To serve thee at a pinch. So when thou hadst sit up again, Although thy garb was rather plain, Thy garments old and dusted, Yet men who saw thy frugal ways, Remembering such in earlier days. Believed thou miglit'st be trustid. The birds, thy customers of yore, To thy new stand came back once more As an established place, It made thy heavy heart feel light When they discharged their hills at sight, And paid their notes with grace. And so thou hast survived thy fall, And fairly disappointed all Who thought to see thee down And better days are stored for thee— And spread thy foliage broad and free, A credit to the town. Progress ofLoxurt. It has recently been asserted in France, as a faet that the princess and nobles of Europe have found it difficult to procure such mirrors as they wanted because of the great demand and high prices of the A- i merican market! I Mr. Gannal, of Paris, has discovered that! the substances most* efficacious to preserve bodies after death, are the Salts of Alumina, j and particularly the Acetate of Alum. He; CfMaßl dered it better than Egyptian embalming. blood vessels may be injeeted with it It j W TaA y thus W wed with great advantage in ptw-ring specimens for museums. MISCELL I Y 1 1 MANNERS OF GENTLEMEN AND LA DIES IN PUBLIC. So much more has naturally been ob served by travelers of American manners in stages anti steamboats than in private - houses, that all lias been said over and over again, that the subject deserves. I need only testify that 1 do not think the ! Americans eat fester than other people, i ion the whole. The celerity at hotel-ta- 1 hies is remarkable; but so it is in stage coach travelers in England, who are al lowed ten minutes or a quarter of an hour lor dining. In private houses, I was never aware of being hurried. The cheerful, unremitting civility of all gentlemen trav elers, throughout the country, is very I striking to a stranger. The degree of ! consideration shown to women, is, in my opinion, greater than is rational, or good lor either party; hut the manners of the American stage-coach might afford a valu able lesson and example to many classes of Europeans who have a high opinion ol their own civilization. Ido not think it rational or fair that every gentleman, whether old or young, sick or well, weary or tired, should, as a matter of course, 1 yield up the best places in the stage to a la 'dv passenger. I do not think it rational or ! fair that five gentlemen should ride on the ; top of a coach, (where there is no accom modation for bolding on, and no resting place for their feet,) for some hours of a j July day in Virginia, that a young lady, j who was slightly delicate, might have room | to lay up Iter feet, and change her posture las she pleased. Jt is obvious that, if she I was not strong enough to travel on com j moil terms, in the stage, her family should j have traveled in an extra, or staid behind, jor done any tiling, rather than allowed j five persons to risk their health, and sac : rilieo their comfort for the sake of one.— . Whatever may he the good moral effects of such self-renunciation, on the tem pers of the gentlemen, the custom is very j injurious to ladies. Their traveling man-; j tiers are any thing hut amiable. W hile l on a journey, women who appear well, j enough at their homes, present all the I characteristics of spoiled children.— Screaming and trembling at the apprehen sion of danger, tire not uncommon; hut there is something far worse in the cool selfishness with w hich they accept the best of every thing, at tmv sacrifice to others, and usually, in the South and West, with out a word or look of acknowledgment.— They are as like spoiled children w hen the gentlemen are not present to he sacri ficed to them, —in the inn-parlor, while waiting for meals or the stagy, and in the cabin of the steamboat. I never saw anv manner so repulsive as that of many Amer ican ladies, on hoard steamboats. They look as if they supposed you mean to in jure them, till you show to the contrary. The suspicious side-glance, or the full stare, the cold, immovable observation,, the bristling self-defence the moment yon come near, the cool pushing to net the best place, every thing said and done w ithout the least trace of trust or cheerfulness, these are the disagreeable consequences j of the ladies being petted and humored as they are. The New England ladies, | who are compelled, by their superior! numbers, to depend less upon the rare of, | others, are far happier and pleasanter j companions in a journey, than those of the rest of the country. Tut: Rf.ai. Vri.oAuiTV of Amf.kicv. 'Fhe manners of the wealthy classes de | pend, of course, upon the character of their objects and interests; hut they are j not, on the w hole, so agreeable as those ! of their less opulent neighbors. The rest i less ostentation of such ns live for grati j deur and show, is vulgar; as I have said. | the oulv vulgarity to Ik* seen in the coun try. Nothing can exceed the display of lit at watering places. At ltockawav, on j Long Island, I saw in one large room, while the company was waiting for diu ; ner, a number of groups which would j have made a good year’s income for a clever caricaturist. If any lady, with an ! eye and a pencil adequate to the occasion, would sketch the phenomena of affectation that might be seen in one day in the piaz za and drawing-room at Rockawav, she might be a useful censor of manners. But the task would he too full of sorrow and shame for any one with the true republi can spirit. For "my own part, I ti lt be wildered in such company. It was as it' I had been set down on a kind of debata ble land between the wholly imaginary l society of the so-called fashionable novels’ of late years, and the broad sketches of citizen-life given by Madame D'Arbiay.— I It was like nothing real. When I saw ' the young ladies trickled out in the most' expensive finery, flirting over the back-! gammon-board, tripping" affectedly across the room, languishing with a sevent y-dol lar cambric handkerchief, starting up in ecstacy at the entrance of a baby; the mothers as busy with affectations of anoth er kind, and the brothers sliding hither and thither, now with assiduity and now "it-li nonchalance; and no one imparting the refreshment of a natural I movement, or tone, I almost doubted! whether I was awake. The village scones! that I had witnessed rose up in strong! contrast, —the mirthful wedding, thewa-j gon-drives, the offerings of wild flowers; to the stranger, the unintermitting, simple courtesy of each to all; and it was scarce- 1 ly credible that these contrasting scenes' could both be existing in the same re public. [Society in America—by Miss; H. Martincau. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. Notes on the Newspapers. Grey j Mare. ¥or sale, a splendid grey mare, perfectly'sound, and kind in harness; trots j well, &,c.—sold because the owner has no further use for her, Ac. &-c.—[Adver- 1 tisement.] We can’t help moralizing a bit upon this. llow many there are who would be glad to sell the “grey mare!” Sell her, did we say! llow many would give her away for nothing, and thank you too for taking the creature off their hands. The 1 quadruped abovementioned “trots well,’ it seems, an accomplishment never lacking in the grey mares we speak of. They not only trot well themselves, but contrive to make others trot into the bargain. — “Kind in harness.” —“No tricks.” Ven ders of grey mares would not, we suspect, be willing to guarantee these points; but as to the “no further use,” they would swear to that, one and all. In spite ol this, grey mares, we are assured, are the i most difficult animals in the world to get rid of.—[Boston Courier. Love’s Telegraph. —ls a gentleman wants a wife, he w’ears a ring on the lir.'t finger on the left hand: if lie be engaged, he wears it on the second finger ; if mar ried, on the third ; and on the fourth, if he never intends to be married.—When a lady is not engaged, she w ears a hoop or diamond on the first finger ; if engaged, on her second ; if married on her third; and on the fourth, if she intends to die a maid. ! When a gentleman presents a fan, a ; flower or trinket to a lady, with the left ; hand, it is on his part an overture of re j gard ; should she receive it with the left hand, it is considered as an acceptance of , his esteem: but if with the right, it is a refusal of the offer. Thus by a few sim ple tokens explained by rule, the passion iof love is expressed, and thro’ the tnedi -Imu of this telegraph, the most timid and i diffident man may without difficulty com municate his sentiments of regard for a lady and (in case his offer should be refu sed) avoid experiencing the mortification of an explicit rejection. i The first settlers of New England sail | oil from England, in the year ItFJO. I'ROSI' E V T U S OK lUK A WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED.AT BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. Tiie causes which render necessary the es tablishment of tiiis Press, and its claims to the support of the public, can best be presented by the statement of a few facts. Brunswick possesses a harbor, which for ac cessibility, spaciousness and security, is une qualled on the Southern Coast. This, of itself, would he sufficient to render its growth rapid, and its importance permanent; for the best port South of the Potomac must become the site of a great commercial city. Bnt when to this is added the singular salubrity of the cli mate, free from those noxious exhalations gen erated by the union of salt and river waters, and which arc indeed “charnel airs” to a white population, it must be admitted that Brunswick contains all the requisites for a healthy and populous city. Thus much lias been the work | of Nature; but already Art has begun to lend j her aid to this favored spot, and the industry of . inan bids fair to increase its rapacities, and ! add so its importance a hundred fold. In a I few months, a canal will open to the harbor of j Brunswick the vast and tortile country through which flow the Altamaha, and its great tribu ilai ies. A Hail Road will shortly be commenc ' ed, terminating at Pensacola, thus uniting the | waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean. Other Rail Hoads intersecting the State in various directions, will make Bruns j wick their depot, and a large portion of the ; trade from the \ alley of the Mississippi will ! yet find its way to her wharves. Snch, in a few words, are the principal causes which will | operate in rendering Brunswick the principal i city of the South. But while its advantages I are so numerous and obvious, there have been found individuals and presses prompted by sel fish tears and interested motives, to oppose an undertaking which must add so much to the importance and prosperity of the State. Their ! united powers are now applied to thwart in every possible manner, this great public bene ! tit- Misrepresentation and ridicule, invective | and denunciation have been heaped on Bruns wick and its friends. To counteract these eft* | forts by the publication and wide dissemination ' jof the facts—to present the claims of Bruns wick to the confidence and favor of tiie public, to furnish information relating to all the great w orks of Internal Improvement now go ing on through the State, and to aid in devel oping the resources of Georgia, will be the leading objects of this Press. Such being its end and aim, any interfer ence in the party politics of the day would be improper and impolitic. Brunswick has re ceived benefits from—it has friends in all par ties, and every consideration is opposed to rendering its Press the organ of a party. To the citizens of Georgia—and not to the mem bers of a party—to the friends of Bninsw ick— to the advocates of Internal Improvement— to the considerate and retlectiug—do we apply tor aid and support. Tf.rms— Three dollars per annum in ad vance, or four dollars at the end of the year. J. \\. FROST, Editor. DAVIS A SHORT. Publisher?. TTlie Lions or Philadelphia. HE architectural beauty of many of the PUBLIC BUILDINGS of this city is pro verbial. They have not only been the pride of the city, but excite the attention of all stran gers. Believing that it would be highly accep table to our numerous patrons, scattered as they are from the Lakes to the Ocean, to be present ed with Splendid Ili.cstkations, from the bauds of first rate artists—we have made ar rangements to bring out a complete series.— They will embrace a correct and well executed view of all the PUBLIC EDIFICES, of our city and vicinity, forming in the end a collec tion, that may well be termed the LIONS OF PHILADELPHIA, and which will be present ed to our patrons, without trenching upon the mull variety of our columns. Where it may lie expedient we will accompany the engrav ings with such descriptions of size and facts of history, as may he of interest. We shall begin the publication as soon as we get several engravings from [he hands of the artists, who are now at work upon them. On the appearance of the first view we shall espe cially increase our edition of the Courier, to supply those win* may w’ish to obtain and pre serve these views. Tlie views will also appear regularly in the PHILADELPHIA MIRROR. O Asa trifling expression of our regard, we shall print the whole series, at their completion, upon fine white paper, in uniform style—form ing a beautiful collection of Views, and present them to such of our country brethren, as may oblige us by an insertion of this notice. Philadelphia. June 27, ISA 7. \ v « Store. GEORGE HARRINGTON A CO. HAVE commenced business in this place, and intend keeping as general an assort , incut of goods as can he found in any store in ! this section of the State, and they respectfully ! solicit the patronage of the Planters and others, I so far as they iiiuv deserve it. | They have just received from Boston a good ! assortment of English and American Piece GOODS, Crockery, Glass and Hard Ware, Groceries, • Boots and Shoes, and Ready made Clothing, and they will constantly be receiving addilion ! al supplies. THEY HAVE NOW roll SALE, j Brown ami hlearlied Shirtings and Sheetings. Ticking, Calicoes and Cambrics, Ginghams, Flannels, Sattinet, Merinos, Negro Cloths, Silk and Cotton Handkerchiefs, Ribbons, Gloves, Hosiery, Thread, Sewing Silk, Pins. Bindings, Buttons, Table Cloths, Shawls, Umbrellas, Blankets, Mattrasses, Ac. Ac. GROCERIES. Brown and Loaf Sugar, 'Pea, Coffee, Chocolate. Shells, Molasses, Brandy, Gin and Wines, Raisins, Cassia, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cocoa, Ginger, Mustard, Sweet Oil, Pepper, Cayenne, Candles, Soap, Spermaceti Oil, Tobacco, Cigars, Butter, Cheese, Pepper Sauce, Starch, Pimento, Salt l’etre, Salt, Pickled Salmon, Mackerel, Codfish, Pollock, Herrings, Tongues and Sounds, Ac. Ac. WOODEN WARE, Such as Tubs, Pails, Dippers, Axe Handles, Corn Brooms, Ac. Ac. II \ Kl) WARE. Axes, Adzes, Frying Pans, Window Glass, Steel, Nails, Fowling Pieces, Brass Kettles, Knives and Forks, Penknives, Scissors, Brushes, with almost every article wanted in building, or for family use. Hats, Boots, Shoes, Ready made Clothing. Ac. Ac. CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE, A complete assortment for family use. G. H. A CO. will receive orders l’or any ar ticles of Foreign or Domestic growth or manu facture that can be procured in Boston, con fident that their advantages of obtaining such artieles will enable them to give satisfaction to those who may employ them. Brunswick, Ga. June 8, 1837. To the ISoal 4'luh* of'thc City of \nv York. C3 ENTLEMEN :- 1 The Aquatic Club of f Georgia," having freqently heard of the fleetness ot your Boats and skill of your Oars men, arc desirous of comparing the speed of one of their Boats, with the speed of one of yours, on the following terms: They propose to run their four Oared Canoe Boat “Lizard." one straight mile opposite the City of Savannah, in fair and calm weather, a gainstany four Oared Plank Boat built in the City ot New York, not over 27 feet 3 inches on the keel, (which is the length of the Lizard's) tor Ten Thousand Dollars a side—Two thous and forfeit. The race to take place in the month of No vember next. Should the day that may he a greed not be fair and calm, the race to take j place on the first fair and calm day thereafter, j The stakes to be deposited in one of the I Bank s in Savannah, on or before the Ist dav of : Octoln r next. | Should the terms proposed, be acceptable, address Gins. R. Floyd, Jefl’ersonton, Camden ! Cos, Ga. and particulars can he arranged by cor ! respondenee. Cl I AS. R. FLOYD, } Secretaries HENRY DUBIGNON. < A C. G. j June 8. Select School. !\j OW in operation under the superinten x deuce of the subscriber, about nine miles above Brunswick, in the vicinity of John Bur nett, Esq. in which youth of both sexes may [receive instruction in all the branches usually taught in our academies. Board may beobtain ed for a few individuals in the immediate vi cinity on reasonable terms. Terms of Tuition. Common branches of English studies, six dol- | lars per quarter. Languages a.id higher brandi es ol Mathematics, eight dollars. ELAM S. ASHCRAFT. ! June 15. School. 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