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Bfwiwtutcli' -jptfrfwcatie* DAVIS <t SHORT, PUBLISHERS VOLUME X. The Brunswick •Id vacate , s published every Thirsdav Morning, in the city of Brunswick. Glynn County, Georg.a, at per annum, in advance, or §4 at the end of the year. No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publishers. |[j*All letters and communications to the liditor or Publishers in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to ensure attention. iryADVEßTlSEMENTSconspicuously in serted at Ons. Dollar per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. dyN. B. Sales of Land, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required, by law. to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property is situate.— Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette. Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. Sales of Negroes must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this ■State, and at the door of the Court-house, where ■such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property, must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. PROSPECTUS uiiiMfcnrj sari A WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED AT BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. The causes which render necessary the es tablishment of this 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. But when to this is added the singular salubrity of the cli mafe, free from those noxious exhalations gen erated by the union of salt and river w'aters, and which are 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 has been the work of Nature ; but already Art has begun to lend her aid to this favored spot, and the industry of man bids fair to increase its capacities, and add to its importance a hundred fold. In a few months, a canal will open to the harbor of Brunswick the vast and fertile country through w hich flow- the Altamaha, and its great tribu taries. A Rail Road will shortly be commenc ed, terminating at Pensacola, thus uniting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean. Other Rail Roads intersecting the State in various directions, will piuke Bruns wick their depot, and a large portion of the trade from the Valley of the Mississippi will yet find its way to her wharves. Such, in a few words, are the principal causes which will operate in rendering Brunswick the principal city of the South. But while its advantages are so numerous and obvious, there have been found individuals and presses prompted by sel fish fears 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 fit- Misrepresentation and ridicule, invective and denunciation have been heaped on Bruns wick and its friends. To counteract these ef forts by the publication and wide dissemination of the stets—to present the cliims of Bruns wick to the confidence alvd favor of the-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 he 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 lias 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 Brunswick— to the advocates of Internal Improvement— to the considerate aHd reflecting—do we apply •or aid and support Terms— Three dollars per annum in ad vance, or four dollars at the end of the year. J. W. FROST, Editor. DAVIS & SHORT, Publishers. M ISC i: L L Jk \ Y . THE MONKEY. a tale from the french. Count Oldaguer had been under the reign of Philip the Fifth, viceroy of Mex ico ; and after a residence of more than ! twenty years in the New - World, he wish ed to return to Spain. The Count revis ited his country with considerable wealth, took a superb mansion in the province of Valencia, and consecrated the tirst leisure of his life to the education of his only daughter Eleanora. She was about fifteen; her eyes of sweet and noble expression and figure elegant as a nymph’s, attracted toiler all the cavaliers in the province; • hey cried on beholding her “Ah! slie is beautiful!” But when their eyes, wan dering over their idol, perceived the dia monds sparkling in her black hair, when they remarked the rarest pearls twisted round her neck, and the richest jewels setting off the most brilliant tissues, they also cried, “Ah ! she is rich!” Then the name of Eleanora, passed from mouth to mouth, and her little court incessantly in creased by the most ambitious and gallant nobles of the kingdom of Spain. M ean while the Count, whom the premature death of a beloved w'ife had left a pray to the most melancholy recollections, saw with apprehension the interested homage) of which his daughter was the object, and his paternal heart could not forbear trem bling at the sight of these young preten ders, who had learnt so early in the cor ruption of courts to mask their vices and conceal their defects, under the parade of the purest principles. One day the Count Oldaguer, immers ed in musing, called his steward, Miguel dc lo Sebrera, a man of intellect and in tegrity, who would give good counsel and was devoted to the interests of his master; qualities, rare.in Spain, caused him to be regarded rather as a friend than as a do mestic. “Miguel,” said the Count, “I am more tormented than ever, about settling my daughter : three suitors, three magnificent suitors—offer themselves for my Eleanora; but in spite of all the good that is said of thowe noble cavali«»t, I am J I'.nnto.o nnn.U in doubt as to making my choice trom them. The first is the nephew of the Duke of Median, Don Alvar de Caceres ; the second, is son to the prime minister —the Marquis Santa Cruz ; and the third is a Knight of Alcantara. Advise me: you know my desires and w ishes only tend to secure the happiness of my beloved daughter, and I would have you seek some metlied by which I may be able to judge of these three cavaliers. Miguel reflected a moment and then said : 1 see a method of ascertaining the most secret actions of Don Alvar, of the Marquis Santa Cruz, and of the Knight of Alcantara. It is absurd, singular, ridiculous perhaps, but I believe it excel lent. Demand that your monkey shall pass ten days at the house of each preten dant. Count Oldaguer could not forbear laughing at this new method of studying men ; lie ordered Miguel to prepare every thing essential to the success of his un dertaking, and went himself to apprise his dear Eleanora of it, whom he met this time with a less anxious brow - . Meanwhile, Miguel, the steward, lost no time in putting Gaspardo, (this was the nnJhkey's name,) in proper trim to present himself at the house of the Duke of Medina’s nephew, for w ith this young nobleman the trials were to commence.— M igucl dressed the monkey from head to foot, and thus prepared and Don Alvar dc Cacores apprised of the visit of his new guest, the animal was conveyed in a car riage to the ancient detnense of the Duke of Medina. You know little, my lord, replied Mi guel, of the ambitious lovers. Had you sent to the Duke of Medina’s house the worst mule in your stables, requesting a place for it in his apartments, his nephew would have bestirred himself till he obtain ed it. Ardent desires, be they of what nature they may, smooth all difficulties; and to knock a nail into the wheel of for tune, the greatest potentate on earth would not scruple may be to reach it by availing himself of a collier's shoulders. Don Miguel was not deceived in his anticipations; the monkey did not for a single moment, quit the nephew of the Duke of Medina. Upon the expiration of the ten days, the steward, accompanied by several lackeys, went to fetch away Gaspardo and had a world of trouble to make him quit the young lord. The par ty, however, arrived at the Count’s hotel at the very time when a number of his convival friends were leaving his rooms;' and our monkey, set at liberty, no sooner beheld the empty wine jars, the scattered bottles, and the flasks and cups turned upside down, than he seated himself at the table, surrounded himself with aJJ the remnants of the feast he could gather to gether, and budged not from his place I till early in the morning, wheu fatigue, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1837. | excess, and the fumes of wine, obliged j him to go and throw himself upon the \ canopy of the drawing room. Eleanora’s father, informed bv MigUfl, had witnessed in person a part of Gasjm do’s orgies. \ou see, said the steward to his master, that your daughter must not become the prey of a dissipated fellow like Don Alvar; the man who passes his nights at table and among the wine cups is not worthy to find love at his pillow ; therefore think no more of Don Alvar.— To-morrow brings the turn of the Marquis jSanta Cruz, and we shall see if we are luckier. The monkey was conducted next day ! with equal ceremony to the house of the Prime Minister’s son, and received l 'by the Marquis with the liveliest satisfaction; he did not a minute quit his new master. — I The ten days expired he returned home, I where his first impulse was to hurry into those rooms where tables were already set out for play. Gaspardo. at the sight of cards, which lay near the candlesticks, 1 squatted down on an arm chair, and be gan with extraordinary activity to shuttle, cut and deal, llis eyes seemed starting from their sockets, and incessantly he im itated the movements of a man who has recourse to his pockets to repair the loss of the card table. My lord, said the steward to Count Oldaguer, the young Santa Cruz w ill not suit us; he is a gamester. To-morrow will show us the Knight of Alcantara. Gaspardo was dispatched next day to the abode ol Don Manuel des Ortiz, lie there spent ten days; and upon coming j home, his first act was to cast himself at the feet of all the women he met with, to | take their hands, and by grimaces, tears aud»cries to describe to them a passsion which, probably, his model felt as little as himself. As luck will have it, said Miguel to Count Oldaguer, this man suits us even less than the two others ; you sec my lord that your daughter has escaped the snares ol a spendthrift, a gamester, and a liber tine. Now you are without idle preju dices, are anxious above every thing for the happiness of the lovely and sensitive hold hi first estimation noble ; prmciplesTmn sentiments, and thereiore ; would do well to seek among arts or let ters, a son-in-law worthy of your daughter and yourself. Bestow wings of gold up ,on concealed merit, which only requires a little such assistance to soar in the strength of genius. Hold! 1 have seen a : young artist w ho painted with such fideli ty the charms of your child, sigh, and of ten even turn pale, when quitting the j places frequented by Eleanora. This* ! young man is the son of a brave sailor who distinguished himself as captain of a ) vessel in the war with Portugal ; he has ! great talent, a fine character, and is only poor and generous; give him the means of being rich and magnificent, and give him also your daughter, to whom lie is not indifferent. But, in spite of the good name he enjoyed, we will send Gaspardo | to him, he is our real touch stone. The Count found himself too much in debted to the counsel of Miguel not in this instance to follow it. The monev was despatched, and lie returned at the end often days, but what a luetamorpho jsis? Gaspardo was cured of all his bad i habits, and now only incessantly imitated a man who paints and meditates. Count Oldaguer, was much surprised at this | novel discovery, united his daughter to the young artist; Miguel, the steward, was handsomely rewarded, and Gaspardo grew old in a house, the happiness of which In had secured without knowing it I Good establishments would be more ! common if monkeys of this species were less rare.* 'Rather perhaps, but the French phrase was difficult to render happy matches, happy households, or domestic felicity.— [Les bous mcnagcs. | MADAM BOURGOI.N AT ST. PETERS- J3URGH. ! After the peace of Tilsitt, M. de Caul ' aincourt, duke of Viccnce, was sent as ambassador near the court of Russia. I The emperor, who neglected no means, judged fit for the purpose of strengthen ing his embassy, to give Mademoiselle Bourgoin, the most beautiful of the ac tresses at the Coincdie Francahc , leave of ! absence to pass a year at St. Petersburg, | at the French theatre founded by the Em peror Paul. i Mademoiselle Bourgoin set off with strong recommendations to many great Russian nobles, and a very particular one to the French ambassador, j She appeared at thu court theatre ; her ! beautiful figure attracted the attention of [the Emperor Alexander, who already knew her by reputation : this was exactly what was desired. She was ordered to the palace ; that also was expected. But before she went, Mademoiselle Bourgoin had a conference with the French Am bassador, who gave her his instructions ; ! but it is very rare that instructions given i “HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE.” ! to a beautiful woman, about to have an interview with a prince, can embrace every j thing necessary : what follows will prove that the Due dc I iccnce had not anticipa ted every event. After some words of gallantry, the em peror gave the conversation a more seri ous turn. “Is the emperor Napoleon,” said he, “much beloved in France ?” “ V es, very much ; one thing, however, has done him a good deal of injury, and alienated many persons—the assassination of the Duke d’Enghien. The word assassination always produ ced a bad effect on tin* Emperor Alexan der. Mademoiselle Bourgoin observed I that his color changed and that his brows knit; wishing to repair her blunder, she ; rejoined : “But it has not his fault; it was that j°f n knot of guilty persons who surroun ded him at the time, and whom he is ex erting himself every day to throw off.” Here the discontent of the emperor knew no hounds, and his ill-humor show ed itself so plainly that Mademoiselle Bourgoin had no other alternative hut to ! take leave and quit the room. The Duke j f l< lln nrc had prescribed to her to come jto the hotel of the embassy immediately ! after her visit to tlie emperor. She re j paired thither. I‘How has the Emperor Alexander re ceived you ?” “Very well at first, afterwards very ; badly.” j “Ah ! all ! what have you said to him ?” “lie asked me if the Emperor Napo leon was beloved in France.” “You replied in the affirmative?” I told him that thev loved the j emperor very much, but that the assassin ation of the Duke d’Enghien had alitiea | ted many persons from him.” “You told him that ?” “And I saw him instantly change col or ; but I arranged it ail.” “And how ?” “I told him that it was not the empe ror s i iult, but that of a knot of murder i ers and guilty persons who surrounded j him at the time.” k ‘-R.n nrl I »’ Tiie Duke de Vicence could hardly I contain himself. Mademoiselle Bourgoin, your stay here | will be shorter than you imagine ; your leave of absence is finished ; get ready to set off to-morrow. Go !” Mad emoisellc Bourgoin was a long time without knowing how to explain her adventure, which she did not dare to re late to any one. The Emperor of Rus sia found her again in 1814 ; perhaps lie may have solved the enigma for her. Tremendous “Business Transac tion.” Not long since a half demented | and comical genius, who locates in the town of Patterson, paid a visit to the j commercial city par cucllinre, and in :strolling along the streets, looking at the j wonderful sights and curiosities that met ; the eye at every turn, promiscuously step ped into an auction store in Pearl street. The man of the hammer, and in fact all hands, from the boss down to the petees, I were instantly on the c/ure wctwi/, *as (Justice Bloodgood hath it, and forthwith , commenced operations—“going—going —one and a halt—one and a half—one land a half—down—T. Nagent &, Cos.” Our stranger now began to imbibe the spirit, of bidding, representing himself as j a country merchant, and wishing to pur chase a number of fancy articles, for the purpose of retailing them at an hundred [per cent profit, to the fair prairie daugh ! ters of the boundless west. Lot after lot was bid off by our interesting hero, un til finally it was deemed expedient by the j auctioneer to advise him of the amount his j Dill had already reached, i “Very well,” said the buyer, “go on.” | The hammer was up again, and, ns he | fore, each lot was struck off to the former purchaser. The sales soon amounted to j about three thousand dollars. A pretty I fair two hours’ work, thought the auction j eer, and accordingly broke off and ad journed until the next morning—more i particularly for the purpose of ascertain | ing what his customer was made of. The sale was stopped—the bill footed up, and presented. “Perfectly right, I expect,” srid the buyer. “Twenty-eight hundred—l hav ven’t got as much as that with me, but I see by your notice sticking up, that stran gers can leave a deposit.” “Certainly,” said the clerk, “pay a part of it, and you can pay the balance when you take the goods.” “Well, then, here’s fifty ants, in spe cie too ; it's all I’ve got, and I want eigh teen pence of that to take me back to Pat terson. I know the driver and he’ll take me for a shilling, and sixpence will pay ferriage! ! ” “You infernal scoundrel, you—you im pudent confounded rascal,” roared out the man who had wielded the hammer, and taxed his lungs on a two hour stretch, all to no purpose, “get out of the store.” “Yes, get out of the store ; or we will kick you out,” said Peter Pork. “Will von ?’’ said lie, “will you ? Then I’m going—going—going—gone !” The auctioneer stormed a little at first, but, like a true philosopher, laughed it off as a good joke, and all hands turned to and put things in order for the next day’s sale, determining that if ever such another customer presented himself at the counter, a select committee should he appointed for the purpose of investiga ting his “financial department,” and also with power, if necessary, to send for “per sons and papers.” Napoleon's Tomb. 1 spent all save the dawning of a long day of hard service, far from the din of European strife, under the sorcliing sky of the East. Even amid the forests of Nepaul, the name of Bona parte sounded like a spell. While his ambition was condemned, his genius was admired, his misfortunes deplored. 1 have often wished to encounter him face to face; the closest approach, however, that fortune enabled me to make to him, was a pilgrimage to his tomb. W hen at St. Helena, I started one morning, with a small party of brother officers, to survey the spot where the remains of the world’s agitator are deposited. The peculiarities of the locality have been laid before the public so often and so amply, on canvass and on paper, that further description is needless. The character of the scene is profound, and awful loneliness, a dell girt in by huge, naked hills, not an object of vegetable life to relieve the general aspect of desertedness, except the few weeping willows which droop above the grave.— The feeling of solitude is heightened by an echo that responds on the least eleva tion of the voice. With what singular emotions 1 took my stand upon the slab which now sheltered the dust of him for whom the crown, thrones and sceptres he wrung from their possessors would of themselves have furnished materials for a monument! There the restless lies at rest; there the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of tiie Confeder ation of the Rhine, Grand faster of the Legion of Honor, reposed with almost as I Hire in no urn iiuuiwtv ant of a country churchyard. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. 1 withdrew my foot, removed with my handkerchief the traces it had left on the stone, and gave a tear to the fate ol the exile. I, also, was soldier of fortune. Our party puffed the place witlTdejected laces and scarcely a word was spoken un til we reached our quarters. On the following morning a French frigate arrived from the Isle of Bourbon, having on board a regiment of artillery. The officers solicited and obtained per mission to pay a tribute of respect to their old leader’s ashes. I accompanied them to the ground, and rarely have I been a witness to enthusiasm like" theirs. On the way not an eye was dry, and some who had served immediately under the emperor wept aloud. As they drew near er to the spot, their steps became hurried and irregular; hut the moment they saw the tomb they formed two deep, and ad \ anccd with uncovered heads, folded arms and slow and pensive pace. When with in five or six yards of their destination, they broke off into single files,'’"‘and, sur rounding the grave at uniform intervals, knelt silently down. The commander ol the frigate and the others in succession, according to their rank, then kissed the slab; when they arose, every lip was fix ed, every bosom full. In a few days the otlicers of both countries met together at Soliman’s table, and after dinner the first toast was, “The King of England—three times three.” I re dly thought that the “hip, hip, hurrah !” of our ancient ene mies would never have an end. An Eng lish gentleman returned thanks, and pro posed “The memory of that great war rior, Napoleon Bonaparte.” The pledge went solemnly round, each wearing, in honor of the mighty dead, a sprig of his guardian willow. The evening was spent in concord ; many patriotic toasts were reciprocated, many good things were said, and the blunt sincerity of military friend ship presided over our parting. PROGRESSIVE RISE Or THE BOTTOM of the Mediterranean. 3J. Theodore Virlet Ltely addressed a note to the French Academy of science, in which ha direct ed the attention of geologists to the prob ability of the speedy appearance of anew' island in the Grecian Archipelago, in consequence of the progressive rise of a solid sunken rock (composed of tracbytic ohsidan) in the gulf of the volcano of San torip. The following are the author’s ob servations on the subject:—“Towards the end of the last century, at the period Ol iver visited Santorin, the fishermen of the Island asserted that the bottom of the sea had recently risen between the island of Little Kaimena and the port of Thera; in fact the soundings did not give a grea ter depth than fifteen to twenty a fathoms, where formerly the bottom couid not be J. W. FROST, EIMTOE. NUMBER 9. j reached. When Col. Bory and the au jthor visited this island in 1829, they were able not only to confirm the truth of Ol iver's statement, but also to ascertain by various soundings, that the rise of the sub marine land had continued, and that the point indicated the depth was not more than tour fathoms and a half. In 1830 the same observers made new soundings, which en abled the n to determine the form an 1 extbitt oi the mass of rock, which, in less, than a year had beep elevated half a fathom It was found to extend 80 metres from cast to west, and 500 from north to south. The submarine surface augmented to the north and to the wdfet from four to twenty nine fathoms while to the east and south his augmentation a mounted to forty-five fathoms. Beyond this limit the soundings indicated in all* 1 directions a very great depth. I have late ly been informed that Admiral Lalande, who, since 1830, has twice returned to j Santorin, ascertained that the rbek still continues to rise, and that, in September, 1835, the date of the lust visit, the depth of water amounted to only two fathoms, so that a sunken reef now exists which is dangerous for brigs to approach. If the rock continues to rise at the same rate, it may be calculated that about thfe year it will form anew island, without however, those catastrophes which this phenomenon seems to presage for the gulf of S uitorin, being a necessary con sequence of the epoch of its appearance to the surface of the water.. Sincejhe eruptions of 1707 and 1712, which pro duced the new Raiment, the volcano seems at the present date quite extinct. Nevertheless the rise of a portion of its surface seems to demonstrate continual effort to make an gruption during fifty years ; and that whenever the resistance shall not he strong enough to offer a suf ficient obstacle, the volcano will again re-' sume its activity/’—[Edin. New Philoso phical Journal. Mormons. These crazy fanatics have their grand tabernacle, we learn from the New York Stir, at a place they call Kirtlaud, 5 miles from the. shore of Lake j m>.l e 4 ,&9yip?v?],ind t^ftwd their leader, Joe Smith. They hive been lately joined by a shrewd literary person named Sydney itigdon, formerly apreach !or of the doctriue of Campbell. Hot is the Grand Vizier to Smith, and under their decision a hanking house has bgeo established, ot which Smith is President and Higdon Cashier. The issues have been about •$153,000. The bank failed. They have several mills on their proper ty. The houses are small, including the* Prophet Joe’s. The temple is a beautiful building of rough stone, three stories high about %) to 75 feet square. Each of the two principal apartments hold 1200 persons. The joints of the interior are supported by six (luted columns. Each apartment contains six pulpitg, gradutim, three at one end for the “A*, ronic Priesthood,” and at the other for the “Priesthood of Mclchisewc.” The slips are so constructed that the au dience can face either pulpit, as may be 1 required. In the highest seat of the “Aaronie priesthood,” sits the reverend father,of the prophet; the next below is tweapiod by ‘Joe,’ and his prime minister, Rigoon. The attic story is occupied as school ! rooms five in number, where the various j branches of English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, are taught to a large number of students. The actual cost of the temple is not known, but it is estima ted to have cost no less than $69,000. - Smith is represented as a placiiTTooking knave, with passionless features and per -1 fectly composed in the midst of the heter ogeneous multitude who have become the i victimized dupes of his imposture. Rig j don is described as the reverse, with a i face full of fire, a tenor voice and of | eloquent speech. The subject of his j sermon was the pressure ; his discourse i was mild and persuasive. Rigdon is the [wirepuller or screen of Joe’s inspirations. The followers are many of them upright men and tolerant toward other sects. [Boston Transcript. Tjmb Well Spent. The Albany Evening Journal has copied from mi English paper an article two columns long, describing a match performance, near London, between two oSebrated pe destrians. The time employed in it ’tfaa ne irl.y eight hours and a half; and we am told that “a highly respectable company, including many noblemen and gentlemen of high rank,” attended the performance. The important business by which these noblemen and gentleman of high rank were kept together for such a length of time, was to see two men pick up 600 stones, (300 each,) laid on tbo ground a yard apart, depositing them singly so a basket, one using his bands and the other his mouth, for a 100 pounds. The mouth won tfce mon ey. [N. Y. Commercial.